Supposedly the ice is all melted at the North Pole. Shouldn't NY, DC, FL, NC and others being swimming about now? That's what Al Gore told me.
Here's the story:
It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.But hey, the upside is we can devour the arctic resources like oil, natural gas and coal.
The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer.
"From the viewpoint of science, the North Pole is just another point on the globe, but symbolically it is hugely important. There is supposed to be ice at the North Pole, not open water," said Mark Serreze of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado.
By the scenario laid out by the mindless Gorebots, Atlantic City should be essentially Atlantis by now and LA should be gone (a pretty warming thought, honestly).
The world has been warming and cooling for millenia and the arctic was once dry land. This should conclusively end the global warming debate, but alas it will not.
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Trust a pub to not have a clue about anything. If the floating ice melts, then there will be little change. The reason is that the ice was floating. It takes up the same space.
No, you have it wrong, Al Gore and his cronies said the ice is melting:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080627/iceless_north_080627/20080627?hub=CTVNewsAt11
And (gasp!) will be gone by September. If it's melted, it's no longer a solid so it would become water, meaning sea levels would rise under the Gore scenario.
You may want to go back and research what melting mean. Oh hell, i'll make it easy: there are three phases of matter, gas, liquid and solid. When a solid hits its melting point, it becomes a liquid. Basic chemistry. You may want to enroll for a course at Shawnee.
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