Headline: 'Antarctica's Ice Loss Helps Offset Global Warming'

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A British study has found a new area of sea off the coast of Antarctica, supposedly caused by global warming, that is soaking up carbon dioxide climate alarmists like Al Gore and his media minions believe is responsible for -- wait for it! -- global warming.

You really can't make this stuff up!

Professor Lloyd Peck, a near-shore marine biologist from the British Antarctic Survey, marvelously said about the find, "It shows nature's ability to thrive in the face of adversity."

With obviously little fanfare, this supports the view of much-maligned climate realists who maintain that fluctuations in global temperatures are largely cyclical, and that nature typically balances such changes over the course of time.

As Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday:

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Scientists led by Lloyd Peck of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said that atmospheric and ocean carbon is being gobbled up by microscopic marine plants called phytoplankton, which float near the surface.

After absorbing the carbon through the natural process of photosynthesis, the phytoplankton are eaten, or otherwise die and sink to the ocean floor. [...]

Over the last 50 years, around 24,000 square kilometres (9,200 square miles) of new open water have been created this way, and swathes of it are now colonised by phytoplankton, Peck's team reports in a specialist journal, Global Change Biology.

Despite this being minute in comparison to the supposedly deadly carbon dioxide released by man's awful use of fossil fuels, "it is nevertheless an important discovery" according to Peck:

"It shows nature's ability to thrive in the face of adversity.

"We need to factor this natural carbon absorption into our calculations and models to predict future climate change," he said in a BAS press release.

"So far, we don't know if we will see more events like this around the rest of Antarctica's coast, but it's something we'll be keeping an eye on."

Something else of note was AFP recognizing that ice melting at the poles doesn't result in rising sea levels:

The Antarctic ice shelves do not add to sea levels when they melt. Like the Arctic ice cap, they float on the sea and thus displace their own volume.

Maybe someone should tell Nobel Laureate Al Gore and all his scientifically-challenged sycophants in the media this, although it's doubtful such facts would interfere with them continuing to spread the junk science making the former Vice President a very rich man. 

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.


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'Debate is over' - about their collective IQs

The global warming throng say 'the debate is over' and 'everyone knows global warming is happening'.   They're all a bunch of greedy morons.

The more I hear them speak, the more I'm convinced they're in it for the money.  Whenever they concoct their grand schemes for 'fixing' global temperatures - what do they always say they want?  Money - cargo planes full of other people's money.

If they were half as smart as they're pretending to be, they'd invent that widget to replace the internal combustion engine, and they'd do it on their own time with their own money instead of trying to steal from everyone else via corrupt politicians.

The idea that these losers have determined that the earth was, and must be, and should be forever - a balmy 70 degrees at all times - is THE dumbest, stupidest, most arrogant and moronic concept ever devised by man.  2009 - and how little progress they've made in their 'intelligence'.  All scientists have 'proved' is that they can be just as stupid today as they were when they thought the earth was flat or that voodoo was real...

Update

Day 965. Gore refuses to take a simple personal energy ethics pledge. Should we judge Gore by the things he says or by the things he does?

I'd say judge him by his

I'd say judge him by his Forrest Gump manner of speaking.

 

The knowledge that the ice

The knowledge that the ice does not affect sea levels is inconsequential to the fact that melting antarctic ice is endangering the polar bear and its natural habitat. Adding to that it is only a matter of time until the melting Polar caps could disrupt the mating cycle and possibly endanger the Penguin. As our Climate Prophet knows, It is important to keep the scientific facts and the possible disasterous effects of Global Warming seperate, so it can be put in laymens terms for the populace to easily understand.

→ Snappy

Nobody wants to talk about the plight of the severely endangered Antarctic Polar Bear.

It just breaks my heart to think about it.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

The ANTarctic polar bears?

Ain't no way. Polar bears like to be on top, as in, the Arctic. 

Let's see. The U.S. and about 26 other countries have scientists in research stations on the Antarctic continent. They use gas-powered, tread-laying vehicles. There aren't any polar bears there. Pollution and destroyed habitats have done them in, and the ones who survives, swam to the North Pole where Santa lives with his reindeer, or as the bears call it, dinner. This is yet one more example of how humans rape the landscape and make the earth uninhabitable by other species. 

[Geez, this sh-t is easy to crank out.] 

Snappy

In the words of NB Funny Man, JWF:

Go fix it.... already.

 

Polar Opposite

melting antarctic ice is endangering the polar bear and its natural habitat.

Polar Bears really are good swimmers if they make it all the way to the

South Pole.

→ dbo

Those are bi-polar bears.

They go both ways, hence the sparse population.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Bi-polar bears

That's a good one. Rapid swinging? Or slow, progressive changes changes in latitudes?

Hey cool...

If Arctic Bears are white what color are Antarctic Bears?

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

 

As was clearly stated in my

As was clearly stated in my orgional post, there is a need to keep scientific fact seperate from the Warming hysteria. Saying that, the Arctic penguins feel quite left out of the conversation.

But you didn't answer my question. And...

I wasn't replying to your original post...btw 

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

 

I can only surmise that the

I can only surmise that the elusive Antarctic Polar bear would be Blue, this is purley conjecture mind you as no one has ever captured this beast on film and we have only heresy to go on.

Nope!

Missed it by about 20,000 feet! 

I think the last thing on this guys mind is ocean levels! :-)

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

 

I try to never base any conclusions on heresy

It's just downright evil to do so.

→ They say heresy

They say heresy, I say hearsay.  What say, Ursae?

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Point taken, although the

Point taken, although the bearly concealed plays were almost unbearable.

Hey, they're doing okay

They got a couple of movie deals and a book about gay penguins (would they be called Pen-Gay?).

→ Pen Gay went straight

Last summer, it seems one of them decided to man-up and get himself a girl.

The San Francisco Zoo was not pleased. 

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Just a little info

I am sure you just made a mistake but there are no Polar bears in Antarctica so melting ice in the south pole wont affect them.  they live in the Arctic Circle in the north

Here's a fact that's worth the knowing, So treasure and mark it well.  When the mind is through with growing, the the head begins to swell.             Sir Nosmo King

No mistakes made, the post

No mistakes made, the post was written exactly as I intended.

Ignoring the

Ignoring the geography-challenged nature of your post, if what you say is true, penguins and polar bears would have gone extinct several hundred years ago when the melting of the poles was much more severe than what we're seeing today, and more severe than any of the IPCC predictions for the future.

I can't tell.

Snappy,  Are you serious or making a joke?  The polar bear population has gone from around 5,000 animals in the 1970's to about 25,000 today.  Of the 14 seperate areas that are counted as populations, one had a slight decline in numbers, but is considered a normal population cycle. Wildlife numbers are on a constant cycle of up and down.  When food is available, they increase in numbers until they get to a point that they have peaked for the habitat. Then the numbers crash and decline quickly. Most of the time, desease and starvation cause the deaths of the population due to weakness from lack of food.  Then the population builds back up again.  There is not evidence that the Polar Bear population of the world is in decline or even endangered.  For some unknown reason, they have become a rallying cry for the global warming movement, but it's not based on any fact or evidence. Just a false narative in a move that is full of misleading lies.

 What does arctic ice have to do with penguins?  They feed off of fish and go to both land and ice to breed.  Some penguins never even see ice and live their lives based on solid rock or beaches.

I was Joking, 1) No polar

I was Joking, 1) No polar bears in Antarctica, 2) no Penguins in the Arctic 3) Seperate scientific fact from global warming hysteria.

 

But hey, it was a good thread runner :)

I saw that movie,

Ridley Scott, right? With Harrison Ford as Al Gore and Jack Nicholson as the Penguin? Set in the dystopian future with fancy cars and pollution and perpetual cloud/smog cover that keeps everything dark and, um, cool. 

I would recomend the Blu-Ray

I would recomend the Blu-Ray directors cut with Fords unedited full text and interactive speeches to the UN's IPCC. Well worth it.

Blu-ray? How about Green-ray?

With special promotional tie-ins to Green Hornet and Green Arrow.

Green Lantern

and don't forget Green Lantern! 

 


خال

→ Eddie

We were joking.  Note where I stressed how extremely rare Antarctic Polar bears are.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Well, "Snappy," while there

Well, "Snappy," while there are no Polar Bears in Antartica, there are a couple of them at our zoo in North Carolina.  Meet, "Wilhelm" - http://www.nczoo.org/animals/NorthAmerica/RockyCoast.html

"Wilhelm" and his buddies at the N.C. Zoo survive quite nicely in the 100+ degree summers and the "chilly" 0 degree winters in that land of "tundra" known as North Carolina. 

So much for Polar Bears not being able to survive "climate change."

Meanwhile, the idea that this so-called scientists "discovered" ocean that "eats" CO2 is laughable if it weren't so sad.  Somebody - presumably taxpayers - are actually paying these bufoons salaries. 

And the "brilliant" realization that our polar caps melting would not raise sea levels is marvelous.  Duh!  My eldest son did an experiment in 3d grade and "discovered" as much.  Where did these guys get their Phds - Idiot U? 

 

An Inconvenient Zing!!!

Gore's humble abode (20 room mansion with 8 bathrooms) right outside of
Nashville, TN uses more energy in one month than an average American
home uses in an entire year. Gore is a goon! You need to read this http://thedailyzing.com/356/an-inconvenient-zing/

An inconvenient truth....

Gore's humble abode (20 room mansion with 8 bathrooms) right outside of Nashville, TN uses more energy in one month than an average American home uses in an entire year.

If that's your "zing" (and I'm not clicking on it to give you a hit) you're a couple of years late with it....

How inconvenient for you.

 

An Inconvenient Zing!!!

Gore's humble abode (20 room mansion with 8 bathrooms) right outside of
Nashville, TN uses more energy in one month than an average American
home uses in an entire year. Gore is a goon! You need to read this http://thedailyzing.com/356/an-inconvenient-zing/

(No subject)

FYI all

I read this story and went on Google earth and the strangest site somebody is photoshoping the pictures of Antarctica,  there is no ice on the arctic circle today and the earth has a strange purple aura. all around it.  are there any other earth view programs out there the public can go to Google earth is playing an agenda on theirs.

Here's a fact that's worth the knowing, So treasure and mark it well.  When the mind is through with growing, the the head begins to swell.             Sir Nosmo King

Oh sweet lord of Neptune.

"We need to factor this natural carbon absorption into our calculations and models to predict future climate change," he said in a BAS press release. 

Now? Now you want to factor it in? 21 years AFTER the global warming scare started?

This is not new. For the love of Davey Jones. Stop it.

One-celled plants, the remains of organisms that feed on them, and fecal matter sink, by force of gravity, into the deep ocean. This phenomenon was first described in the late 1800s by Harvard’s Alexander Agassiz, who referred to it as the "rain of detritus." Its effect is to pull carbon out of the upper ocean and cause it to rain down into the depths, where bacteria and other organisms metabolize and release it back into the water as CO2, enriching carbon dioxide in the deep ocean. (Either way, the chance is very small that a carbon atom in the ocean will be incorporated into organic matter or chemically combined with a carbonate cation to form calcium carbonate that will end up sequestered in sediments, where it might remain for hundreds of millions of years.) - source

Three quarters of this planet is covered in water. Now. Now you want to factor in exactly what effect this could have on long term climate?

Allow me to introduce you to a few other factors you might want to add to the climate models.

Clouds - it seems that when the oceans get warmer, the emit more water vapor that turns into clouds that block the sunshine from reaching the ocean and cool it back down.

Rotation of the earth - The earth rotates, the side facing the sun absorbs the radiation of the sun while the side facing away from the sun loses the heat it gained the previous 12 hours.

Just a few things there to add to your climate modeling there.

Now I have finally come up with the new 2009 fix for Global Warming. The JWF fix we will call it. Remember from the article I posted. Very little of the carbon that ends up on the ocean floor ends up being recycled. Here is my fix.

We take what is left over from the Stimulus money and build a giant Freeway right to the middle of the Pacific Ocean. A freeway that ends at 100,000 toilet seats. Not the toilets, just the toilet seats. We will all crap right in the ocean. All of our collective poo would sink to the bottom of the ocean where the carbon in our poo would be trapped for friggin ever.

2 fixes in 1!!!!!!! Stimulate the economy and fix global warming!!!!!!

Thank me now. The one man solution making genious. Please. Please. No more monuments to me. There is enough already.

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

phytoplankton

wow, nature taking care of C02, and therefore, global warming-- who'd have thought it was possible-- the earth herself finds a way-- and didn't even need to consult ALGORE-- now all we need to do is encircle the Antarctic with a big ass net, to keep the whales from getting in there, and eating the phytoplankton after they absorb the C02, because we all know what happens if they were to eat them-- the whales would end up making those special bubbles full of C02 in their "bathtub"--- ;)

The BS

The BS these folks will spew to save their jobs and/or grants is truly disgusting.

.. thriving in the face of adversity (global cooling)

"It shows nature's ability to thrive in the face of adversity."

Speaking of thriving in the face of adversity, is it not incredible how many forms of life survived October, 2009? My goodness, NOAA reported that October of 2009 was the 3rd coldest on record for the United States.

I'll be back to continue this breaking story in a minute here. Although I'm rather confident that the human species has survived - I do need to search our national news headlines to see just how damaging to the environment this near record cold was, how many species have become extinct or are expected to become extinct now, and just who caused it.

OK - here I am. I'm back from the search. Nada. Everybody's going to be fine - even the little critters. Stinging nettle did take a hard hit from the cold, however, and that was good news, because as we all know, global warming was expected to allow stinging nettle to take over the universe.

And, the great news is that as this cold progressed, the number of global warming alarmist stories continued to increase proportionately.

(;~/ gary

I Love Repairing Quotes

"It shows nature's ability to thrive in the face of stupidity."

Fixed it for ya!

 

JMHO, you understand.

If Saul Alinsky owned a news channel it would be MSNBC.  ----  Me

How about...

Have you knuckle-dragging neocon deniers considered that maybe Antarctic polar bears are already extinct from global warming and that's why we can't find them?

Not global warming!

Ever notice how fat those penguins are? Coincedence? I think not! ; ) 

Gary

 

Old media species: Moonbat-a-saurus-rex. Getting more endangered by the day.

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