From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: "North Pole Could Be Ice Free In 2000, uh 2008, uh, 2014, uh,
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 21:54:26 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Mon, 2 Sep 2024 14:22:26 -0700, Alan wrote:
> 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.
Why? We've changed that "rate" before: HomoE burned Sibr from Yurp to Korea
and we're still here. The whole "climate change catastrophe" is a media
event intended to make the rich richer and blame the commons for their current,
and chronic, mismanagement.
Dhu
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