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Environment & Energy

Adam051188

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1. whatever they're saying, rest assured that the reality is much worse than that.

Reply to NickB79 (Original post)

Sun Aug 17, 2014, 12:28 PM

Aug 2014

there are no profits to be gained from a "war on ice loss", so the data-skewing will be of the downplaying variety, not the customary inflationary kind commonly found in american everything concerning "drugs" or "terrorists" or "poor people" or whatever.

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This Is the New Worst-Case Scenario for Ice Loss in Antarctica [View all] NickB79 Aug 2014 OP

whatever they're saying, rest assured that the reality is much worse than that. Adam051188 Aug 2014 #1

Yeah, that was my take on it too NickB79 Aug 2014 #3

That seems to be the trend... PoutrageFatigue Aug 2014 #5

Obviously propaganda put out by the multibillion-dollar Jackpine Radical Aug 2014 #2

I never imagined that Al Gore could display such cunning. Enthusiast Aug 2014 #4

But how can we incorporate this information into our valuation of the natural world? hatrack Aug 2014 #6