In an effort to highlight the impacts of
global warming, four fun loving environmentalists decided to row the Northwest
Passage in Canada, which used to be cut off by ice accumulation. Unfortunately,
their trek was cut short by seasonally cold temperatures and – you guessed it –
ice.
“After learning that ice choked much of the
route ahead, the group decided to end their trip at Cambridge Bay, about
halfway to Pond Inlet,” reported CBC.
Apparently there is just not enough global
warming happening right now. (Maybe the group should have driven around town in
a Hummer a few times before attempting their publicity stunt.)
According to a report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, there has been a 60 percent increase in the amount
of ocean covered with ice compared to this time last year. The finding
indicates that there is clearly a shortage of global warming in this down
economy. To put the figure into context, that’s roughly a million square miles
of new ice in one year. In fact, the ice has even forced ships to
reroute cargo as the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific has
remained blocked by pack-ice all year long.
World scientists meeting at the IPCC, seem
confounded by the fact that the world is set to see a 15 year downtrend in
world temperatures. Some are calling this a “pause” of the anthropogenic global
warming trend we’ve seen for the last decade. Other experts are saying temps
could fall as low as they did in the 1960’s and 1970’s – when other experts
were warning that the world was headed toward an Ice Age. The change in climate
trends seems to be making the IPCC’s ability to sell global warming initiatives
a bit more difficult.
Despite the fact that light trucks such as
the F-150 and Toyota Tacoma continue to lead automotive sales, our climb on the
global temperature gauge seems to be slowing. In the last 100 years we, as
mankind, have only managed to increase the world temperature by .8 degrees
Celsius. Try as we might, the Amazon rainforest is still around, and we have
yet to see California erode into the Pacific Ocean. C’mon people. . . This is
America. We can do better. I suggest we launch a full fledged campaign to help
push California into the Pacific.
Source: Townhall.com by Michael Schaus, Townhall Finance | Sep 09, 2013
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