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Originally posted by kozmo
The only problem I see with this is that the polar ice caps are getting bigger, not melting. As a result we are not going to see the rise in sea levels that some chicken littles have predicted.
Originally posted by TruthxIsxInxThexMist
Hello there,
I've just been thinking about these rising sea levels and the impending tidal waves that are supposed to flood many parts of the World..... what about all those animals in the zoo's? Are they going to be left to perish in that place? They've been stuck in these zoo's for a good long while only to die from drowning!!!
[edit on 4-7-2009 by TruthxIsxInxThexMist]
Originally posted by kozmo
The only problem I see with this is that the polar ice caps are getting bigger, not melting. As a result we are not going to see the rise in sea levels that some chicken littles have predicted.
Originally posted by KarlG
good information.
it's rising minimally, only like one inch every 10 years or something. Matter of fact, in 100 years, that's 10 inches. It's still a lot. The next generation, and the generation after the next, will have much to worry.
A noted expert in sea level change has accused UN's IPCC panel of falsifying and destroying data (PDF) to support the panel's official conclusion of a rising sea level trend. The accusations include surreptitious substitution of datasets, selective use of data, presenting computer model simulations as physical data, and even the destruction of physical markers which fail to demonstrate sea level rise.
The expert, Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner, also raps the IPCC for their selection of 22 authors of their most recent report on sea level rise (SLR), none of which were sea level specialists. According to Mörner, the authors were chosen to "arrive at a predetermined conclusion" of global warming-induced disaster.
Originally posted by KarlG
And the polar bears, bless their souls those poor things, are drowning in the sea, because the ice chunks they use to float from one end of the Arctic to another are melting or breaking apart and causing them to flounder in the Arctic sea.
souce
The polar bear is being used to spur the world to take drastic action against climate change. Facts derail this call to arms. This is the climate change scare writ small.
In the 1960s, there were probably 5,000 polar bears around the globe. Forty years later - thanks largely to a reduction in hunting - the World Conservation Union (IUCN) counts five-times that many.
The world's 25,000 polar bears live in 20 distinct populations. Two populations are growing. Most are stable. Just two are waning.
The declining populations are in areas that have gotten colder over the past 50 years. The habitats of the two thriving groups have actually become warmer.
Originally posted by KarlG
On top of that, people like kozmo make me very ashamed of my homo sapien status. The polar bears are drowning and dying and all some uninformed nits can say is that the ice is GETTING BIGGER.
If the ice is GETTING BIGGER, why are the bears DROWNING? Shouldn't they have enough land, then?
Bears deserve the right to live, too. Sometimes, more so than humans.