It’s even worse than that. You can’t correlate one datum.

Serious question: do you really expect rational thinking of him ?

Naw – we were too stupid back then to recognize the warning signs of AGW. It would take another 35 years or so for brilliant scientific minds like that of “Charles “Icarus” Johnson to develop and show the rest of us dopes the way…. or not!

notice how God is a female to this progressive.

they deny God every chance they get, but if they are forced to admit there might be a God, they make it a feminist God

1962 !!!

OK,using half baked lgf logic here. Since the last few winters have been epic cold,really packing on the ice up north, wouldn’t it make sense for extra large ice “calves” to be dropped in the summer?

You are sooooo pleasure-seeking

Considering after it was proclaiming the triumph of supposedly getting the site shut down and then being challenged with the TOS agreement caused it to flee, it must have been pissed off to find out that the site is still here.

That and the Baltimore police must have been laughing their collective asses off if it made its threatened phone call. Yeah, it’s so quiet in the City that they’ll just run out because a troll was cornered at a website. Either way, if it shows up again, I personally plan to ignore it and let it screech at itself.

Your comments are all out of jail. There are several things that trip the spam filter, and numbered lists are one of them.

For the record, this was Chuck. But comment #196 is Lood:

Yeah.

ONe of the most difficult things about working in this field is that we keep telling people that things are bad and going to get much worse. Not enough of the right people listen.

Then something like this happens and it confirms that we know what we are saying.

But then comes the deep realization that almost no one in power will put together how bad this all really is or what the implications of what they are looking at are.

We are still in a phase where he worst things – the things that would scare people who know what they are looking at green – are all happening elsewhere. Or, they are happening here, but we can mitigate them.

Sure there is a massive wheat shortage world wide, but America still has reserves.

What people don’t get is how finite that all is, and how our support systems are fading. They are fading, right in front of our eyes.

We are still in a phase that is growing slowly worse. People think that at this rate we have centuries before having to worry. What they don’t get is that these things accelerate. They pick up speed. A loss of a Manhattan sized ice chunk, even one 4 times larger) once this years will soon be forgotten, but then comes the period where we lose several like that in a year.

The drought in Russia or the heatwave in America seem like just bad weather now. But soon, that will become the new normal and bad weather by those standards will destroy entire crops across the globe.

But out of sight, out of mind eh? By the time it is so bad that even someone like Rush or Palin could no longer deny a problem, it will be much too late to do anything to effectively mitigate it, and it will get vastly worse because it will keep accelerating to a new equilibrium.

The new equilibrium we are pushing towards will not support our current population.

If we cross those lines, the real hard choices about who lives and who dies, who eats and who doesn’t, who has children and who doesn’t, get made.

Just blows right past any question of whether this actually proves anything.

In fact,

221 LudwigVanQuixote Sun, Aug 8, 2010 4:45:13pm

re: #209 SixDegrees

Perhaps not, but the occurrence of similar and even larger such calvings in the past make the tie to present-day warming weak, at best. It is, apparently, something that happens normally, if rarely.

There are better measures out there. This one, not so much.

Are you insane? Really? Those glaciers were stable for tens of thousands of years. But the old ice is breaking up in city sized chunks in the last few decades, at an accelerating pace.

Yes there is a break up and refreeze cycle at the fringes. We are seeing losses far beyond that normal cycle.

This is not something that happens normally prima fascia, since we are seeing the loss of old ice.

This is a very striking measure, not a weak one.

For you to pronounce that this is at best a weak tie – as if you have any idea what you are talking about is utterly arrogant, false, and frankly stupid.

The guy’s insane.

There was also reports of snow in Australia (the desert outback) during their last summer.

Blewdwig is the one in favor of killing people for denying Global Warming™ and refusing to submit to socialism, anyway, so WTF does he care if anyone dies? Gawd, that son of a bitch is stupid!!

You have to know the characters to get all of that, but, yeah.