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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/pifc-gis030912.php
Oh, boy.
BlueIris
(29,135 posts)I thought the only news today had to do with Rush and the campaign.
Uncle Joe
(58,423 posts)aggressive national and in turn global action to alleviate the problem.
So if we have an opportunity to take his megaphone of, mass suicidal bullshit away or at least reduce its' effectiveness, I'm all for it.
I don't seperate the two issues of Limbaugh's toxic message and the worsening global warming climate change crisis, they're intricately connected.
The former is essential to enabling the latter.
DavidDvorkin
(19,486 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)XemaSab
(60,212 posts)BlueIris
(29,135 posts)Literally.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)im sick of these "experts" who are supposed to know coming out and saying things like this "x" is happening sooner than or quicker than or more than expected. bunch of dopes
DavidDvorkin
(19,486 posts)serious researchers trying to refine their models and include new data.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)BlueIris
(29,135 posts)We've got bigger problems than politics.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Seriously, people don't want to contemplate any pending disaster unless it fits into the biblical end times...
Glad I didn't have kids. The world that is coming is going to be harsher and more physically demanding than the way things are today.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)Several times it's been significantly warmer during an interglacial than it is now, and the Greenland ice sheet is supposed to be millions of years old.
Also the current interglacial was warmer thousands of years ago than it is today, and Greenland's ice sheet survived.
http://www.journal-tes.dk/vol%203%20no%201/Niels%20Schroeder_lav.pdf?id=00029
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum
Of 140 sites across the western Arctic, there is clear evidence for warmer-than-present conditions at 120 sites. At 16 sites where quantitative estimates have been obtained, local HTM temperatures were on average 1.6±0.8 °C higher than present. Northwestern North America had peak warmth first, from 11,000 to 9,000 years ago, while the Laurentide ice sheet still chilled the continent. Northeastern North America experienced peak warming 4,000 years later. Along the Arctic Coastal Plain in Alaska, there are indications of summer temperatures 23C warmer than present.[5] Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present.[6]
ananda
(28,876 posts)Oh, boy.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)and they say it could happen even if the warming was reversed after 'many thousand years'. This really is a long term projection. The 'lives of millions of people' are those several centuries distant.