This article is my reaction to a recent headline about an iceberg colliding with a glacier. by Jahfre Fire Eater
(libertarian)
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Here's what I found misleading about the headline: The problem isn't the big ice that broke off and is floating away as the headline implies. The effect on ocean currents is a far fetched bit of conjecture that goes like this:
the place where the ice used to float may cover with sea ice
that will reduce the saline concentration effect of evaporation over a large expanse of ocean
that will change the amount of oxygen carried in the currents
so portions of the ocean may SUFFOCATE!
The scenario is an intricate Rube Goldberg machine that portrays climate change hysteria's core flaw: climate is not a machine; it is an evolving system of energy exchange; It can't be predicted as if it were a machine. Climate is change. If machines change their behavior it means they must be fixed and preventative maintenance must be prescribed. That sounds like a job for...SUPER-GOVERNMENT...able to throw more cash at non-existent problems than any monument building empire in history.
The big ice mentioned in the headlines? Harmless. Even the wild imagination that came up with the suffocation doomsday scenario couldn't dream up a way for big ice cubes to scare anyone. So they use the headline to mislead folks into thinking big ice cubes = BAD! and Change = BAD!!!
How about this tactic: They compare the sizes in ways that make no sense to anyone. One iceberg is 960sq mi the other is twice the size of Samoa. What the hell kind of nonsense is that? Big ice = "BAD". That's what kind of nonsense it is. The more ways you describe the BIG BAD ICE the more likely the BIG BAD ICE will be what folks focus on.
Later they mention that the one big ice cube is less than half its original size from its 'birth' in 1987. Did we forget to be afraid of it all these years that it has slowly been melting away? For more than two decades this ice has been a time bomb, a sleeper cell of climate change Armageddon lore.
The monument builders are frantic to keep the little people afraid enough to ignore the crumbling credibility of the UN-Gore fear-based propaganda and pseudo-science. So they pulled the half-sized 23 yr old boogieman out of retirement as the catalyst for yet another reason to fear change and BIG BAD ICE.
Help, help, there's ice cubes in the ocean!!
-Jahfre Fire Eater
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