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Shocking Spring Ice Levels Show How Hard Winter Has Been

Posted April 24, 2014 12:43 PM

From Gizmodo:

In case there was any doubt about it, NASA has confirmed that "ice cover this spring is significantly above normal." And with "significantly" they actually mean "are you freaking kidding me?" When the Aqua satellite passed over Lake Superior on April 20, the lake was 63.5 percent ice covered. Last year it was at 3.6 percent. It's the worst year in more than three decades by a very wide margin.

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04/24/2014 1:12 PM

Damn Global Warming'll get you every time.

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04/24/2014 4:30 PM

Did the mean sea level go down?

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04/25/2014 2:08 PM

Maybe Roger Pink can straighten this all out.

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04/25/2014 8:39 PM

Global warming means less differential between Arctic and equatorial, thus jet stream moves down, bringing the polar vortex. Easy to understand if you aren't biased. I'm so tired of the professionally ignorant on this forum.

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04/25/2014 9:17 PM

They're getting paid?

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04/26/2014 1:24 AM

Thank you for explaining how global warming causes......cold.

I though global warming meant, uh, well, err, I mean, ......... I know what global means!

You are correct, that, I am bias, but only because there's soooooo much money involved.

For the record, Tornado already established that I'm silly. I'm not ignorant, and certainly not professional.

I'm actually going for journeyman droll. I think the emoticons help! Especially with the sarcasm.

I think if I could use all the emoticons, that would be cool.

I'm at a loss at how to use the kissing face though. Hmmm....How about, "World Bank Group can ........"?

No! that's just plain inappropriate. "Sorry Jim, here's 100 billion dollars. How many thousandths of a degree will that buy." "Oh, OK, I'll be serious now. Promise"

People this is a serious problem, this article contains disturbing photos of actual global warming. Arable farmland has already dried out and a city has flooded...somewhere.

For a one time donation (per year/forever) of several hundred billion dollars, you can stop this impending tragedy!

Don't you find it promising that global warming is a problem we can fix, now that we know where to send the money.

I miss the days when all the "weather events" were not our fault.

If you Have a nice day! is that because of global warming too?

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04/28/2014 7:53 AM

Right.

So All during the 80s and 90s when 'global warming' was happening, there were no polar vortices like the one this winter. But then, despite the 16 years of no global warming since 1998, suddenly we get a polar vortex. (Which -- I'm sure it's just a coincidence -- occurs during a period of near-historically low Sun activity. Gee, maybe that's a clue!?)

Next time you call someone 'biased' or 'professionally ignorant', make sure you're facing a mirror.

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04/27/2014 12:06 PM

Typical of some here, who refuse to accept the fact that one year does not make historic trends inaccurate, and that the earth will warm and cool regardless of the human population on its surface, global warming is happening.

GLOBAL WARMING IS HAPPENING.

Refusing to acknowledge that there is a slight chance the mankind MAY slightly accelerate this trend because we have a single, colder than normal winter instills no confidence in the intelligence level of the people who ridicule the known, documented global thermal cycles that have occurred in the past, and will continue into the future.

That would be like me saying that, Arizona is a desert so it could never have been covered by an ocean. Really silly!

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