From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: "North Pole Could Be Ice Free In 2000, uh 2008, uh, 2014, uh,
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 14:22:26 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2024-09-02 14:12, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2024-09-02 4:50 p.m., Alan wrote:
>> On 2024-09-02 13:42, Mittens Romney wrote:
>>> Alan wrote:
>>>> On 2024-09-02 12:44, Dhu on Gate wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 2 Sep 2024 09:43:48 -0700, Alan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2024-09-02 09:33, Skeeter wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <vb4ov2$2thdj$3@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2024-09-02 07:14, AlleyCat wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 1 Sep 2024 13:24:29 -0700, Alan says...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> And just to be clear, that "record low" from 2007 was broken...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And just to be clear, ALL of those records are not in play
>>>>>>>>> anymore, since... you know... the ice has come
>>>>>>>>> back.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> So much for global warming.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Has it, though?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Has the Arctic ice minimum fallen from 6.9 million square
>>>>>>>> kilometres in
>>>>>>>> 1979 to 4.37 million square kilometres in 2023?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So what. The world will do whatever it wants.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Again, you don't see the cognitive dissonance.
>>>>>
>>>>> Another ad-hominem, aye?
>>>>
>>>> Nope.
>>>>
>>>> You not understanding what "cognitive dissonance" means doesn't make
>>>> it and ad hominem (which doesn't get a hyphen, BTW)
>>>
>>> You fetid bot-twat, you wept like a crybaby when I semantically
>>> disassembled your "create fresh water" mumble-news into mockery.
>>>
>>> You're a sad drink of hypocritical spite.
>>>
>>
>> Are you always utterly delusional...
>>
>> ...or is it only when you're drunk or on other drugs?
>
> Is this the same ice cap that has been receding since the end of the
> last ice age? I live in the middle of the Niagara Peninsula and just
> about a mile north of my house is the Fonthill kame, a pile of sand and
> gravel that was deposited here as the glaciers started to melt and
> recede. They have been receding for about 15000 years. They were
> receding since men lived in caves. I am not saying man has not impacted
> the rate of recession but I think it is pretty clear that it is
> happening anyway, just like it had happened four times before this.
>
But whether we have changed the rate matters.