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- Railer, on 10/11/2007, -6/+25This just in Scientists say Global Warming sank the Titanic!
- tconnect80, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8*****, just what we need. Global Warming bringing about those bird/bat-things that attack you when you're out out of the light.
- seriatim, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Iceburbs!
- danarama, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I'm going to go to another thread and argue whether gobal warming exists or not.
- pitlord, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Continents are made out of land, not ice. The continent is the same size, it's the ice sheet that grows in winter and shrinks in summer. So, the overall size of the continent doesn't change as a result.
- HexeL, on 10/11/2007, -7/+11I believed in Global Warming with an extreme passion until I looked closely into the science and those funding it. To my great relief, Global Warming is nothing more than a money making scheme. The so called "credits" are gonna make those pushing GW forward ultra billionaires.
Also, the science is flawed. CO2 is the life blood of vegetation. It is essential for plant photosynthesis. If we multiplied our current CO2 levels by at least 10, we'd still have far less of it than when thousands of volcanoes were heavily active millions of years ago. Yet the CO2 from those volcanoes did not kill the dinosaurs or vegetation of that time. In fact, they co-existed for well over 100 million years, and life back then was far more diverse, abundant and enormous.
Tiny little man is not as big is he likes to think he is. - danarama, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4No huge chunks on the side that have been frozen for centuries are melting and breaking off.
- hifiDesign, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3No worries, man, just keep lots of propane tanks handy.
- Davisourus, on 10/11/2007, -4/+7Creating a flourish of plankton and krill life is NOT inherently a good thing! In the Mississippi River there is a nasty cycle (dealing with oxygen/nutrient levels) that involves a flourish of life followed by an overextention of resources. Resulting in a pile of dead plankton/krill and very few oxygen-starved fish.
- rboyce, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Perhaps, but all of the SCIENTISTS who study this and agree that humans are a significant contributor to global climate change are, in fact, SCIENTISTS.
- jimmiss, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3This is just someone scrambling to make global warming look good.
- trippinlikegod, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I hear that. I believe the planet is warming up, I am also educated enough to know we are STILL at the tail end of an ice age so it makes sense the planet would be getting hotter. Do people have something to do with it? Maybe, who knows, I'm not a ***** scientist.
- Railer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"melting and over flooding the oceans that will subsequently destroy coast lines"
You know right that the current level of Flooding after 100 years of global warming is currently 2 mm a year. At that rate most plant life can out run 'the flooding". - M3RCINIAN, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5"Melting ice dumps particles scraped off Antarctica into the ocean, providing a pool of nutrients that feed plankton and tiny shrimplike creatures known as krill."
Uh, doesnt ice normally break off Antarctica every year in the summer? - cuoops, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2source - http://www.mbari.org/news/news_releases/2007/icebergs.html
images - http://www.mbari.org/news/news_releases/2007/icebergsl-images.html - siska1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Global Warming exists....But it's not man-made.
That's why The entire solar system is warming. (Solar activity)
Search Mars Warming, Pluto Warming, etc....and there's no SUV's there - pitlord, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4OH NOES!!!!
He speaks the truth!
His words make sense!
Quick! Digg him down before Al Gore hears about this!
X^P
Oh, and someone call him a nasty name too! - RuckusNutz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656640542976216573&q=the+global+warning+scam&total=256&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2
Evidence that backs up the asinine statement! - RustedGod, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Whatever the other accusations of 'The Great Global Warming Swindle', they were bang on the mark in saying there're academics shamelessly using the notion of global warming as a pretext for obtaining funding for completely unrelated research. That this makes a major news outlet and the front page of Digg is ridiculous. Not to dismiss the value of the research itself, but it's sad to see that the folks who carried it out providing such a blatantly bogus cover for their work. I suppose one can hardly blame them, if it's the difference between doing it and not, but it's sad nonetheless to see professionals in a field which is nothing without honesty and integrity having to resort to such a measure.
- Jugalator, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The article seemed to be trying to combat sensationalist stories by telling "it's no biggie because these drifting lonely bergs still provide nutrients", but whatever.
- Railer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Wow thanks for the crazy green vote, is Hexel it didn't take long, you to are now one of the "rapists."
@cleverendeavor7 - Thanks for pointing out bad crop management is just like rape, millions of women across the world should be happy to know, you've just equated them to dirt. - joshua5, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3So when an ice berg floats above NYC we can all rest happy it's helping to promote sea life.
- Cyberen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1we're in an interglacial period, not the end of an ice age.
- pitlord, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4From the article:
[quote]"One important consequence of the increased biological productivity is that free-floating icebergs can serve as a route for carbon dioxide drawdown and sequestration of particulate carbon as it sinks into the deep sea," Smith said in a statement.[/quote]
So, the plankton released from the melting icebergs will actually eat the extra CO2 in the atmosphere and reduce global warming?
You mean, Al Gore was wrong and the world isn't going to end tomorrow?!?!
OHNOESSSS!!!1!!1!ELEVENTYONE!!!111
X^P - KillerKellerjr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1ummmmmm.....double post!
- setec, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I agree.
- HexeL, on 10/11/2007, -5/+6Have they linked Global Warming to cancer yet? I bet you Global Warming was behind the Kennedy assassination.
- spz104, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Notice the article is actually entitled 'Drifting Iceburgs are Hotspots of Life' but the submitter added 'from Global Warming' in order to get it on digg?
- Manuelmty, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Is there a possibility the recently melted ice frozen years or centuries ago contain some unknown bacteria or previously eradicated viruses ?
- Manuelmty, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1s there a possibility the recently melted ice frozen years or centuries ago contain some unknown bacteria or previously eradicated viruses ?
- mescalitospoke, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"Man awaits tidal wave with bucket"
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Buried as inaccurate.
Melting sea ice does not cause sea level rise
This is a well known FACT.
Ice displaces exactly it's own melted volume.
The weak man made global warming propaganda never ends...... - bar10dr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Digg NEEDS nested comments.
- necbone, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Nice to see some good coming out of global warming......just like sinking ships in the ocean, it gives animals a place to live..
- MisterFlibble, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Popular Tech is the latest incarnation of Andrew K, banned twice from digg for spamming, once as "Mastertech", and more recently as "poptech":
http://digg.com/environment/Climate_Panel_Consensus_on_the_Need_to_Reduce_Harmful_Emissions
He's back to start spamming his latest page again.
Report this abuse to abuse@digg.com. - bluegender, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2How do you spell Icebergs wrong??
- simplejoe79, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1yeah trying to show "good sides" of global warming as they say "everything happens for good"
- cleverendeavor7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0It's called an algae bloom, and it's extremely unlikely that there will be an algae bloom large enough to affect the ocean's fish populations negatively. What we should be more worried about is the tremendously dangerous effect of the melting poles have on altering the ocean's temperature.
Didn't anybody see "The Day After Tomorrow?"
/sarcasm - disciple83, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1it exists, it's clearly visible. Rainfall has been dropping in the southern US during storm season. Temperatures are rising in the midwest, oh yea, it's real. However the real debate is whether or not this little bout of climate change is the result of what we as humans are doing or whether or not it's simply a larger weather cycle that will eventually normalize and return to a cooler state in a decade or so.
- girlinseattle, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Nature is rapidly "evolving."
Humans on the other hand... - SmackaMuta, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Algal Bloom via Wikipedia - "Some algal blooms are the result of an excess of nutrients (particularly phosphorus and nitrogen) into waters and higher concentrations of these nutrients in water cause increased growth of algae and green plants. As more algae and plants grow, others die. This dead organic matter becomes food for bacteria that decompose it. With more food available, the bacteria increase in number and use up the dissolved oxygen in the water. When the dissolved oxygen content decreases, many fish and aquatic insects cannot survive. This results in a dead area."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_bloom - Greenlou, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Just because melting icebergs may bring about some benefits to the planet we live in, are we to underestimate the negative effects of global warming? Help us educate people on how to save our planet, learn more at
www.greenvoice.com - Cyberen, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Global Warming is still a problem. It only makes sense that lifeforms like Krill would take advantage of the changes, but it doesn't mean the changes are good.
- danarama, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Problem being of course that this is the same ice that's melting and over flooding the oceans that will subsequently destroy coast lines and anything that exists on those shore lines.
- spz104, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1'ALL' the scientists who study it agree? Not quite.
- spz104, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Repent, Jesus is coming!! Oh, wait, I'm just jumping to conclusions to sensationalize my religious agenda.
- Railer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2@HexeL - Welcome to the none alarmist club.
Let me start you off,
1. Your are now a naive dupe of "Big Oil"
2. Oh you must be a holocaust Denier as well!
3. Your not a climatologist, there fore you could not possibly understand the complexities of Climate Change, (leave it to such people as Bono, they know their science)
4. Why do you want to bury your head in the sand, and save this great mother earth (religious connotations meant)
Well enjoy and remember never bring up your opinions at work or any social gathering, the "greens" can be violent, for questioning their religion. - HexeL, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Coastlines will emerge and disappear so long as there is water and weather.
- cleverendeavor7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0ICEBERGS OF DEATH!!!!!!!11111111
- dinostabOMG, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Of course changes in the environment are going to provoke changes in patterns of living creatures. That doesn't mean that the change is desireable or should be promoted. Is it a good thing when deer take over the suburbs? This might not affect people directly nearly as much, but to encourage sweeping enviornmental changes for the benefit of some few plankton and krill (which I presume the OP is suggestion, maybe he didn't mean that though) is irresponsible.
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