Saturday, October 04, 2008
Blow hard
So, you think that climate change is responsible for melting the ice in the Arctic Sea and thereby, allegedly, endangering the polar bear? Are you among those who attacked Sarah Palin for opposing the designation of the polar bear as endangered because of climate change? Well, there is some new science you need to read.
5 Comments:
By 
clint, at
Sun Oct 05, 12:54:00 AM:
Fundamentalist religions are impervious to contrary facts. All facts can be absorbed into the faith.
Three easy steps:
- Changing wind patterns are a kind of Climate Change.
- All Climate Change is the result of Global Warming.
- All Global Warming is entirely caused by Man's burning of fossil fuels.
Therefore: the changing arctic ice is still all our fault.
And if you disagree, you must be mocked and belittled.
By Dan Kauffman, at
Sun Oct 05, 07:27:00 AM:
"Fundamentalist religions are impervious to contrary facts. All facts can be absorbed into the faith."
Agreed and the fanatic Gaia believers have never faced up to the SCIENTIFIC FACT that Polar Bears are NOT a distinct species, but instead are a breed of Brown Bears.
By 
, at
Sun Oct 05, 09:12:00 AM:
I didn't think it was warming, but neither was wind on my mind.
By , at
Sun Oct 05, 10:33:00 AM:
It's not about the facts, its about the political agenda. And when Barry O is in the White House, it will only get worse. But it seems that is what our "American Idol" elecorate wants. Sounds bites and instant gratification. Why take care of yourself when the Light Worker and his minions will make things all better using someone else's moneye?
By Brian, at
Sun Oct 05, 10:38:00 PM:
I'll bet anyone on this site that a new record low will occur for Arctic ice cover during the next five years. I'll also bet that no record high will occur
Hard to see why natural variability would keep driving the amount of ice lower and lower. I get it though, it's just a coincidence that this is happening while greenhouse gas emissions have gone upwards during the last 50 years.
As to the link: what percent of the Arctic ice cover comes from glacial outflow? It's an important issue for sea level rise, but not for ice cover, and that's what counts for polar bears.
