Our Poles Are Melting! - But hey, it's just the planet, right?

[kpete]

Don't panic: it's just the poles melting

by David Atkins

Seriously. The North Pole. It's a lake now. (Check out the video at the link.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/north-pole-melting-leaves_n_3652373.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Things are getting ugly on Earth’s underside.

Antarctic permafrost, which had been weathering global warming far better than areas around the North Pole, is starting to give way. Scientists have recorded some of it melting at rates that are nearly comparable to those in the Arctic.

Scientists used time-lapse photography and LiDAR to track the retreat of an Antarctic ice cliff over a little more than a decade. They reported Wednesday in the journal Scientific Reports that the cliff was “backwasting rapidly.” The permafrost that made up the cliff was found to be disappearing nearly 10 times more quickly than was the case during recent geological history. And the rate of melting is picking up pace.

But hey, it's just the planet, right? If we actually do something about it, we might increase the deficit somehow. Which would be awful because rich people might have to be taxed, and that would mean less trickle trickling down. Icewater trickling into the oceans from the poles is another matter. That's good as long as we can keep the oil burning.

So, no planet for you. And whatever you do, don't panic.

more:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/dont-panic-its-just-poles-melting-by.html

[City Lights]

1. Climate-change deniers killed Santa!

Seriously, what is it gonna take to wake up these fools?

[Eddie Haskell]

2. Deniers are dangerous.

And our government considers environmentalist as terrorist ... Jail the deniers!

[DontTreadOnMe]

3. I was watching a science program about the melting

and it showed that the warming of the North Pole will actually change the European jet stream the most, and in fact will cause the cold Siberian air to migrate west across Europe -- thus creating a colder weather pattern for most of Europe. Think heavy snow in London and the Thames frozen over.

And the opposite over in Canada, where the frozen tundra will melt -- releasing the worst of the greenhouse gases, methane.
Methane is 10 times worse than CO2 for greenhouse effects.

It does not look good, humans deserve the wrath they brought on themselves.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Nonsense. I've examined the photographic evidence carefully

and I see no sign that any of them are melting.

[MisterP]

8. Kashubian k&r

[onehandle]

5. Every week the MSM report planets around distant stars, as if it's a new thing.

So we have plenty of spares.

Don't worry about this one.

[limpyhobbler]

6. jeez, that's too bad.

[Eddie Haskell]

7. Chris Hedges quote

"And so we plunge forward in our doomed quest to master the forces that will
finally smite us. Those who see where we are going lack the fortitude to
rebel. Mutiny was the only salvation for the Pequod’s crew. It is our only
salvation. But moral cowardice turns us into hostages."