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GLOBAL WARMNG FROM THE WASHINGTON POST.

Yo'Adrienne..AFCL 2012/07/01 18:05:06
The following short news story is TRUE! It is NOT a joke or gag!
Be sure to read this in its entirety:

The Arctic Ocean is warming up. Icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes!
Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the Gulf Stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.”
My apologies... I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post 89 years ago!
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  • ladyjane 2012/07/02 02:54:00
    ladyjane
    BULL!!!
  • Charles E ladyjane 2012/07/02 03:23:45
    Charles E
    +1
    Global warming or the article?
  • ladyjane Charles E 2012/07/02 03:29:39
    ladyjane
    +2
    Global warming... Sorry I should have made it a bit more clear...Maybe I should have said both... I guess it comes with being better educated about what's going on in the government and what they are trying to get away with...
  • Charles E ladyjane 2012/07/02 03:35:36
    Charles E
    +1
    The more informed ocasionally see things as so obvious that we forget to explain them to others. Thank you for answering.
  • Hula girl - Friends not Fol... 2012/07/02 02:50:55
    Hula girl - Friends not Followers
    +1
    Funny.
  • The Duke 2012/07/02 01:53:37
    The Duke
    +1
    Good one!
  • Roger47 2012/07/02 01:41:49
    Roger47
    +1
    We owe it to the generations that follow to leave them a liveable planet.
  • ladyjane Roger47 2012/07/02 03:05:08
    ladyjane
    +1
    We also owe it to future generations to have an education that tells them to take pride in their country and to be smart enough to know when they are being hosed by their government!
  • Roger47 ladyjane 2012/07/02 03:16:28
    Roger47
    +1
    True. Education is critical to our future. It is a shame there are so many who do not see that.
  • Christine/Rest in peace Pet... 2012/07/02 01:39:46
    Christine/Rest in peace Peter Br
    +2
    There was also that big Ice Age in which 1/3 of North America was covered in ice. Because in the future, we humans probably found a way to go back in time, it is possible that humans will be blamed for the warming period then too.
  • Kane Fernau 2012/07/02 01:36:13
  • Chris 2012/07/02 00:37:01 (edited)
    Chris
    +2
    is global warming real


    is global warming real


    This is all normal? Huh... nothing to see here I suppose. :/

    global warming

  • tony Chris 2012/07/02 01:48:32
    tony
    +1
    Stop driving your car.
  • Chris tony 2012/07/02 02:02:56
    Chris
    +1
    My car is zero emissions.
  • tony Chris 2012/07/02 02:25:42
    tony
    +2
    Stop breathing, burping, farting.
  • Chris tony 2012/07/02 02:46:25
    Chris
    +1
    That's not a solution, we need to develop cleaner forms of energy. Solar, wind and geothermal can easily be implemented to reduce our dependance on coal and oil.
  • Charles E Chris 2012/07/02 03:30:21
    Charles E
    Solar and wind are both highly subsidized and still cost more than conventional energy sources. And they are highly unstable and unreliable as energy sources.
    Outside of Iceland, geothermal is only viable on a small scale and has large up front costs.
  • Yo'Adri... tony 2012/07/02 21:55:52
    Yo'Adrienne..AFCL
    +1
    good one tony!
  • Charles E Chris 2012/07/02 03:26:13
    Charles E
    If you are driving there are emissions somewhere caused by your car!
  • Chris Charles E 2012/07/02 04:49:45 (edited)
    Chris
    Even if all you drive is a small gasoline car I'm sure it's better than a truck or SUV. I'm not saying all people have to drive no/low emission vehicles like me, the technology is expensive right now as it is still fairly new, but making at least some conscious effort to minimize one's carbon footprint would be a wise decision. Your attitude of all or nothing is unnecessary, you can easily offset your carbon footprint by growing trees, I've donated to have hundreds of trees to be grown in the rain forest through the Nature Conservancy... The number of trees I've had planted will far cover any carbon footprint I've ever made. If everyone would just donate to just have 1 tree grown for each person that would dramatically help this planet.

    deforestation
  • Charles E Chris 2012/07/02 13:36:45
    Charles E
    By my count I have planted over 20 trees and at least 12 of them are still standing. I value our planet. I just disbelieve the claims that mere man is responsible for the current warming trend.
  • TheThinker Chris 2012/07/02 11:15:45
    TheThinker
    +1
    No it's not. How do you think the electricity is produced?
  • TheThinker Chris 2012/07/02 11:01:21
    TheThinker
    +1
    Hey asswipe. Here are the facts on your picture of Mount Kilimanjaro.

    Image via worldtopjourneys.com

    By Apolinari Tairo, eTN Tanzania | May 24, 2012

    TANZANIA (eTN ) - Constituting the highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro is slowly building up its snow cover, allaying the fears of prominent scientists who had predicted witnessing the eminence lose its famous white hat. The drifts are slowly thickening on the top point of this summit, giving new hopes to Mount Kilimanjaro environmental watchdogs and tourists that the peak may not lose its beautiful snowy cap, as scientific experts have long been warning. ert
  • ☆ QueenAline 2012/07/02 00:29:00
  • Yo'Adri... ☆ Queen... 2012/07/02 00:30:24
    Yo'Adrienne..AFCL
    +1
    LOL........
  • Bevos ☆ Queen... 2012/07/02 13:34:03
    Bevos
    +1
    Poor thing. He looks exhausted! LOL!
  • 'Zedd 2012/07/02 00:17:04
  • Yo'Adri... 'Zedd 2012/07/02 00:31:42
    Yo'Adrienne..AFCL
    +3
    Why is it that this is the reasonable, no agenda ties.....and those libturds just keep buying into this crap.! It's simple "PELOSI-ESQUE" definnition...: DELUSIONAL!
  • Al B Th... 'Zedd 2012/07/02 00:38:06
    Al B Thayer
    +3
    Give science enough years and it will disprove itself.
  • 'Zedd Al B Th... 2012/07/02 00:48:19
  • The Duke 'Zedd 2012/07/02 01:58:49
    The Duke
    +2
    You mean to tell me the earth ISN'T flat?!?!! Next you'll be
    saying that the sun and solar system DON'T revolve around the Earth!!!
    Disgraceful charlatans!!!
  • Grandbr... 'Zedd 2012/07/02 09:14:44 (edited)
    Grandbrother
    So then we should discount science? Yes, scientific understanding of things grows and changes in the face of newly acquired empirical evidence, as it should. That's how we ultimately gain a more accurate understanding of the things we study.

    And yes, eventually, the earliest theories can be viewed in hindsight with a "belly laugh", like the geocentric model that put the Earth at the center of the universe, surrounded by a series of enveloping spheres. What a belly laugh, right!? Yet without that initial "belly laugh" theory, there would have been no foundational observations for Aristarchus, then Copernicus, then Galileo, then Kepler, etc. to progressively build upon, ultimately leading to our current understanding that the Earth and eight other planets actually move around the sun on elliptical orbits, and that our solar system is only one of millions on the outskirts of one galaxy out of countless others scattered throughout the universe.

    So just think - if your mindset were to have prevailed back in Ptolomy's time and held through now, we'd still believe that first "belly laugh" geocentric theory.
    Bartolomeu_Velho_1568 jpg
  • 'Zedd Grandbr... 2012/07/02 14:13:49 (edited)
  • mae 'Zedd 2012/07/02 00:43:02
    mae
    +7
    Yup, grew up in Oregon in the 1950's and 60's--remember some really cold long winters in the '50's, then warmer in the 60's--it seems to change about every ten years--just like the El Nino-La Nina cycles. I believe in recycling and being green--was raised that way, but beyond that? I can't get too excited.
  • Charles E 'Zedd 2012/07/02 03:31:49
    Charles E
    +1
    I have lived through this same cycle of ever changing "Facts".
  • Grandbr... Charles E 2012/07/02 09:26:35
    Grandbrother
    No, you've lived through ever-changing "scientific theories". Science never declares as outright "fact" that which is not an indisputable constant, such as gravity or the speed of light. The scientific method is specifically designed to be adaptable to the acquisition of new, more accurate and reliable information. If it weren't, we'd still be living in the Dark Ages.
  • Grandbr... 'Zedd 2012/07/02 08:36:42
    Grandbrother
    It does indeed warm and cool in cycles. But that does not preclude human behavior from having an additive effect.
  • Bella 2012/07/01 23:57:59
    Bella
    +2
    It's embarrassing that in America we have an entire political party scared of loaing elections making them scared of this science
  • relic Bella 2012/07/02 00:31:44
    relic
    The dems, huh. I see it too.
  • Kiosk Kid 2012/07/01 23:44:56
    Kiosk Kid
    +7
    "Environmental scientist James Lovelock, renowned for his terrifying predictions of climate change's deadly impact on the planet, has gone back on his previous claims, admitting they were 'alarmist'.

    The 92-year-old Briton, who also developed the Gaia theory of the Earth as a single organism, has said climate change is still happening - just not as quickly as he once warned.

    He added that other environmental commentators, such as former vice president Al Gore, are also guilty of exaggerating their arguments.

    The admission comes as a devastating blow to proponents of climate change who regard Lovelock as a powerful figurehead.

    Five years ago, he had claimed: 'Before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.'

    But in an interview with msnbc.com, he admitted: 'I made a mistake.'"

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...

    Everytime there is hot or cold weather, the Hoaxters will sound the alarm.

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