Like, OMG, the world is going to flood out.  We'll all be living on ships, just like Kevin Costner in "Waterworld."  Regional coasts will flood.  People will become refugees as the water swallows vast swaths of land.  Whole cities will wash away.  Turn on the news and watch New York, Boston, LA, and San Diego get swallowed by the rising seas caused by melting polar ice.

This will be worse than the ozone hole, which gave half the world's population skin cancer during the 1990's.  This will be worse than global cooling, which decimated the population by destroying our ability to live in northern latitudes.  Or have we all been fed a lie?
Ron Lindsay of the University of Washington/Seattle Polar Science Center told the National Geographic, “Nobody knows for sure” he added that while much of the first-year ice does melt in the summer, “not all of it does.”  The Independent quotes Lindsay as saying, “There’s a good chance that it will all melt away at the North Pole, it’s certainly feasible, but it’s not guaranteed.”  So here we have a situation of two publications cherry picking quotes to prove their respective cases.
I learned at age seven that water expands when it freezes, so it contracts when it melts.  That's why an ice cube melting in your coke doesn't cause the cup to over-flow...the volume displacement shrinks. It's all part of the miracle of hydrogen bonding.  It's also why ice floats, and why getting ice on a lake doesn't kill all the fish in the lake by crushing them under a sinking shelf of ice.

That's assuming that all the ice will melt, and, as you can see, there's no consensus on the subject.  Someone should tell Al Gore that the apocalypse has been canceled, but I'm sure he already knows.
 
   

 


 
 
SaikotikGunman on
Re: Waterworld
I wish more people would find the golden mean between Coulter's God gave us the Earth to rape as we please, and Al Gore's cronies who would tax us for exhaling.
astro1701 on
Re: Waterworld
Coulter is a stoooopid c*nt and that whole carbon tax is a load of crap
SaikotikGunman on
Re: Waterworld
My point exactly.

As with guns, there is some middle ground.

Compromise doesn't have to be a dirty word.

For instance, I really don't think convicted murderers should be able to legally purchase guns.  I also don't think they should, as a general rule, ever be allowed to live in free society again.

In the whole Abortion/Pro-Life/etc thing, I'm against abortion, which I view as killing babies(there are a lot of adults that we should kill first), but for contraceptives that preempt conception.  I also think it's a merciful thing, with proper safeguards in place, to allow doctor assisted suicide in cases of terminal conditions with untreatable pain.

I don't think people should litter.  In fact, I would shift littering from $300 fine to lethal injection... but I think we should be allowed to burn our garbage in our back yards, and that the EPA needs to find better things to do than help give Exxon and company an excuse to charge five bucks a gallon for diesel fuel.

I think property owners should have as many rights as possible, but I also think the government should take action to limit and, in areas listed as USDA prime land, completely ban residential/industrial/commercial development.

I believe the open and free market is a wonderful creature, but that there are cases where the market, as is the case with any system, can not self-correct every little thing and might need a nudge, especially in areas, such as energy, food, and water management, where ensuring production, reasonable prices, and maintaining an emergency reserve is vital to protect the people who fund that government.

Oh, and I don't like tobacco smoke, but I think people should be allowed to smoke in any business where the owners say they are allowed to.  If a bar is willing to lose non-smoking customers in order to cater to those who do smoke, that's the proprietor's business and that's that.

I'm not sure what I just illustrated, but I was trying to expand on Chris Rock's point that there are some things we're liberal about, and some things we're conservative about, or at least anyone who actually has and uses their brain should be like that...
astro1701 on
Re: Waterworld
run for Office..you have my vote

"I would shift littering from $300 fine to lethal injection."

who would then be organ-harvested

two birds- one corpse
SaikotikGunman on
Re: Waterworld
I'm not big on the whole organ donor thing... just don't seem natural... but how about dog food(after reasonable tests to ensure the corpse won't make Fido sick, of course)?
astro1701 on
Re: Waterworld
works fer me
SaikotikGunman on
Re: Waterworld
Oh, and I won't be president.  The presidential position has become little more than a broken rudder, figurehead of corporatism position.  I will accept nothing more or less than benevolent dictator.
astro1701 on
Re: Waterworld
yeah, you've given me that line before bub..
put yer money where yer mouth is
SaikotikGunman on
Re: Waterworld
Hey, it takes followers to launch a coup.
astro1701 on
Re: Waterworld
I'm there
SaikotikGunman on
Re: Waterworld
You and what army?
astro1701 on
Re: Waterworld
you're the Fearless Leader..
you fetch them
I'm The Sapper, not my job "oh Mighty Master"
SaikotikGunman on
Re: Waterworld
Sapper?  We'll just call you Tim.
astro1701 on
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SaikotikGunman on
Re: Waterworld
I was thinking McVeigh.
astro1701 on
Re: Waterworld
LMAO...
I know, I got it..but I couldn't resist

 
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