Climate Breakdown "Will Redraw Map Of The World" - Independent

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"Maps of the world will have to be redrawn, as global warming melts the Greenland ice cap, inundating coasts and major cities, the Government's chief scientific adviser warned last week. Sir David King told ministers, senior officials and leaders of industry at a top-level conference on climate change in Berlin that there was a "real risk" the ice sheet would not survive and that "humanity had better be prepared for a complete realignment of the coastal zones, where most of the world's major cities are sited".

He added that parts of the ice sheet had already retreated by up to 30 feet in the past few years, compared to 10 feet between 1890 and 1950. Other experts at the conference, which was opened by the Queen to signal her concern about climate change, confirmed that the ice cap, which contains a sixth of the world's fresh water, was already beginning to melt.

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Sir John Houghton, a former head of the Meteorological Office and the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and one of the world's leading experts on global warming, told The Independent on Sunday: "We are getting almost to the point of irreversible meltdown, and will pass it soon if we are not careful." Professor Jacqueline McGlade, chief executive of the European Environment Agency, who has just returned from Greenland, added: "You see it happening before your very eyes. I stood by a chasm which, five years ago, had been filled with ice."

Delegates to the conference agreed that the threat from climate change was "real, serious and urgent" and that it could have "a devastating impact on human society and the natural environment"."

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=580333

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1. Red States to Become Blue...

... as all of the Blue Staters move off the old coastline to the new inland coastline.

[cubsfan forever]

2. But, but, Jesus told Chimpy that

global warming is a "librul lie!" How can this be? /sarcasm off
Yeah, Chimpy, f*** science, f*** the environment, f*** education, f*** jobs***, f*** legitimate elections.

Oh, and FUCK YOU, you F***ing Nazi!

Professor 2

NOW I feel better...

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3. Fundies not worried because they think they will be "raptured"

Fundie James Watt never worried about paving over wilderness areas to make parking lots because "the earth is going to be destroyed anyway."

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4. Now we know why red-staters could care less about Global Warming.

It's a plot to increase their land values.

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5. God has spoken! Let's all move north and leave the right-winger

the south which will become so hot and tropical that in a few centuries, they will become as dark as the people they love to hate.

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6. Yet another reason to shut down the US economy. nt

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x16304

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7. There is only one problem with this

in that Leif Ericson's colony on Greenland planted and grew wheat circa 1100 ACE. So, it HAD to be warmer then than now. As a geologist, this rush to blame any climatic change on humans is quite presumptuous on our part. The world has been a lot warmer in the past during certain periods than the present. A warming period has been a precursor to the onset of an Ice Age in several incidents in recent geologic time span.

I'm not advocating the 'pollute and let the sinners worry about the problem after the rapture' idea but there are a lot of factors that are not being accounted for in these scenarios.

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