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Arctic coastline shrinking faster than predicted
Melting sea ice leaves Arctic vulnerable to erosion
Report warns of 'crumbling' Arctic
Arctic coast eroding up to 8 metres a year: study
A lot of moaning, doom and gloom and stuff and the assertion that something can and should be done about it. All due to global warming of course, but darned if they don't once mention the word Anthropogenic or anything similar. No suggestions about what to do about it either.
As far as I'm concerned, this is just mother nature doing what she does - changing, and showing us who's boss. Shit happens. Things change. Organisms die. That's the nature of life and the processes of earth science. It would be worse if the earth was cooling at a rapid pace. Get over it.
Melting sea ice leaves Arctic vulnerable to erosion
Report warns of 'crumbling' Arctic
Arctic coast eroding up to 8 metres a year: study
A lot of moaning, doom and gloom and stuff and the assertion that something can and should be done about it. All due to global warming of course, but darned if they don't once mention the word Anthropogenic or anything similar. No suggestions about what to do about it either.
As far as I'm concerned, this is just mother nature doing what she does - changing, and showing us who's boss. Shit happens. Things change. Organisms die. That's the nature of life and the processes of earth science. It would be worse if the earth was cooling at a rapid pace. Get over it.
Labels: AGW, doom and gloom, geologic time
posted by Louise at 8:29 pm
3 Comments:
What of the fact that last winter's Arctic ice pack was greater than in decades? And that the Antarctic ice pack is also overall growing significantly? I think the Global Warming crowd is yet again cherry-picking data for their gloom & doom histrionics.
Ya, a handful of villages might have to relocate, but that's about it. Global disaster it ain't.
If the Arctic warms up enough for a long enough duration, vegetation will grown on those coastlines and that will hold the soil in place. All in good time.
In the meantime, in parts further south, innumerable communities along rivers are adapting to and coping with major floods, which will also erode an enormous amount of soil and perhaps even change the course of some of the rivers. BIG HAIRY DEAL!!!
That is what is known as geological forces. Cripes, if continents can move, if mountains can rise as high as they have and massive old lakes dry up, what's so special about coastlines eroding?
/rant
There's some interesting facts in this short article that appear to have been ignored in the others.
For example:
"The researchers point out that the survey, published Sunday in print and online, is not definitive because at this time there isn't a sufficient amount of year-to-year data to compare, but they suspect that erosion has been accelerated by reductions in sea ice cover."
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