Sea-level doom from Antarctic melting

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  1. PriusTech

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    I had hopes for Howard Dean also, I think he threatened to regulate the media? Then they exaggerated "the Dean scream" to make him look bad.

    Mark Twain is good

    Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

    It's easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled.

    Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But then I repeat myself.

    If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

    Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.


    I'm not as cynical as George Carlin was but he did tell the truth

     
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    It's easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled.
    I like that one, so true ..... Remember the tobacco industries effort they put into lying to everyone about the affects of smoking, then the cotton industry about the dangers of cannabis hemp? How many still believe the lies rather than accept they were fooled ......

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    When has seal level ever remained constant?
     
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    At least half the time it was on the rise, and about half the time it has fallen.
     
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    It has been relatively stable for several millennia. The last time it was changing this rapidly was during the rapid glacial meltoff that marked the end of the last Ice Age. But it was rising from a level more than 100 meters lower than today.
     
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    If this sounds like denial, it's not; but the carbon cycle is unsustainably out of balance.
    But it's foolish to try to make the climate static. It never has been in 4.5 billion years.