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JamesCalvin
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Message Posted: Feb 10, 2012 10:13:59 AM

You all have it wrong!

We are about to enter an age of global cooling! John Holdren has predicted that CO2 will cause global cooling. Read his textbook!
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SycamoreISU
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 9:05:16 AM

Translation: We don't have the empirical data to substantiate our doom-and-gloom predictions, but we still want you to panic!
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Evilmaddog
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 9:04:57 AM

carbon taxes we pay in BC, must be working
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albert2008
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 8:13:40 AM

guessstimates time will tell
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Joeski1
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 8:10:56 AM

well , how much less?? Lifted from this piece..

"While vast quantities of ice melting into the ocean is not exactly good news..."

so.... it's like... a little less than horrible... maybe just very bad... or.. chronic ... like cancer....

I thought I'd eit too doe.. although I didn't use a big word tat I had to hit the sepell chek awn....

[Edited by: Joeski1 at 2/9/2012 8:12:44 AM EST]
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doeslayersr
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 8:08:04 AM

An inconvenient truth.

[Edited by: doeslayersr at 2/9/2012 8:09:19 AM EST]
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grandpadon28110
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 7:45:59 AM

Global what?
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ClarkSC
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 7:44:28 AM

Where's Al Gore?
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Eliano
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 7:43:29 AM

europe is frozen now.. back to ice age.
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cmptrmush
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 7:39:57 AM

The world has always moved in cycles and will continue to do so. As warm as the environment gets today, sometime tomorrow it will freeze again.
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Valricoslash
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 7:27:36 AM

Let me get this straight. Ocean levels are rising at a rate of 6/100 of an "INCH" per year. So I guess in a 100 years they will have risen 6 inches and it would take 200 years for them to rise a foot. Not exactly something to be worried about in my book. Besides how did they come up witht he exact measurement of 6/100s? Have you looked at a ruler lately? Take one ince and try to subdivide it into 100 ticks. You can't without a magnifying glass. Nobody can predict what is going to happen 200 years from now, no matter what they think, the models they use or the adoration they receive from neurotic morons like Al Gore. Sounds like the same global warming alarmists crap that has been proven to be false in the past. Remember taht less than 1000 years ago Greenland ws actually farmed by the Vikings. They left when the mini ice age began.

[Edited by: Valricoslash at 2/9/2012 7:32:35 AM EST]
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bar1035
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 7:10:20 AM

Greenland is named Greenland because it was green when it was named.
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Rockyguitar
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 7:07:21 AM

Ice melting - new ice forming in Antarctica. Doesn't it all wash. And how does one measure .06 inch in an ocean...accurately? Why is Greenland named Greenland? The earth cools/the earth warms. Wazzup, dog?
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Tigercat88
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 7:01:28 AM

It is true climate change. Not Global Warming.
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TruthMatters
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 6:58:00 AM

Interesting article, but I don't see how that was relevant to this website
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NGC4565
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 6:39:39 AM

And 10,000 years ago there was so much ice that the ocean level fell enough to create a land bridge between Asia and North America. The ancestors of native American walked across that bridge to get here.

2000 years ago it was so warm that the Romans were able to cultivate grapes in northern England. Our climate changes by itself, with or without our intervention. Get used to the idea.
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99dakota
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 6:01:22 AM

Glaciers and ice caps have melted before. New England was under a glacier 10,000 or so years ago. It melted. It's all part of natures cycle.
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ReddevilNO
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 5:54:21 AM

But, It's still melting, right? Yeah!
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wrunner
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 5:47:45 AM

Expect the worst, but hope for the best.
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Yooperheart
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 5:46:51 AM

Hi anascom, just think that it will make drilling faster at the North Slope.
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 5:42:04 AM

First it is, then wait, maybe not, oops, now it is.
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Luckylindy
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 4:56:03 AM

No it's not. The sky is falling.
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kitty1750
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 4:29:06 AM

Natural cycle of the earth. Nothing can be done to speed it up or slow it down. Remember the ice age and extinction of the dinasaurs.....that was also nothing to do with humans.
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cdrrod
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 4:02:35 AM

But remember the real message is: "The Earth's Polar Ice is still melting!"
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anascom
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 3:59:58 AM

interesting info/data. but how accurate are they?

also, what does that have to do with gas/oil prices?
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jrs4125
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Message Posted: Feb 9, 2012 3:41:41 AM

Headed for the cliff a little slower, I'm so happy.
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