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this is everyone's situation, no matter what your beliefs. can the earth withstand 25 more years of this? Or am I being too paranoid?

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it's fireball of ionized air measured 10 kilometers (7 miles) across.
The force of the Tsar Bomba was 50 Megatons

Now lets look at the Chicxulub Impact that arguably wiped out the dinosaurs. It was equivalent to 100.000.000 Megatons

50 Mt  vs  100.000.000 Mt... notice a slight discrepancy?

Let that polar ice melt. The earth will be fine. Life on earth will be fine. There will be less land for the animals but more sea for the fishes

Most plantlife is in the sea in the form of free floating algi. They breathe most CO2 and have the highest rate of pulling carbon from the ecosystem, fossilizing into... fossile fuels

If the greenhouse effect will melt the north pole there will be more cubic meters of ocean, thus more algi, thus more carbon fixation... Fossile fuels, once burnt, return to fossile fuel so in essence they are renewable energy too , it just takes a while to renew it!

Mother Earth will be just fine. Life on Earth will be just fine. It will be just as fine without us.

All the impact we have on the enviroment (toxic pollution, radioactivity redistribution, mass extinction) is basically the same thing as a big asteroid smacking down on the soil.

And did the 100.000.000 Mt asteroid punch right through the earth's crust into the lava? Hell no, it just made a 100 mile wide dent in the earth's crust!

Everything is fine. If we want things to be more pleasant we must reduce our harmful approach to civilization, however.
Let's face it: we're an Extinction Level Event!





We Will All Go Together -- Tom Lehrer

When you attend a funeral,
It is sad to think that sooner or
Later those you love will do the same for you.
And you may have thought it tragic,
Not to mention other adjec-
Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do.
But don't you worry.
No more ashes, no more sackcloth.
And an armband made of black cloth
Will some day never more adorn a sleeve.
For if the bomb that drops on you
Gets your friends and neighbors too,
There'll be nobody left behind to grieve.

And we will all go together when we go.
What a comforting fact that is to know.
Universal bereavement,
An inspiring achievement,
Yes, we all will go together when we go.

We will all go together when we go.
All suffuse with an incandescent glow.
No one will have the endurance
To collect on his insurance,
Lloyd's of London will be loaded when they go.

Oh we will all fry together when we fry.
We'll be french fried potatoes by and by.
There will be no more misery
When the world is our rotisserie,
Yes, we will all fry together when we fry.

Down by the old maelstrom,
There'll be a storm before the calm.

And we will all bake together when we bake.
There'll be nobody present at the wake.
With complete participation
In that grand incineration,
Nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak.

Oh we will all char together when we char.
And let there be no moaning of the bar.
Just sing out a Te Deum
When you see that I.C.B.M.,
And the party will be "come as you are."

Oh we will all burn together when we burn.
There'll be no need to stand and wait your turn.
When it's time for the fallout
And Saint Peter calls us all out,
We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn.

You will all go directly to your respective Valhallas.
Go directly, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dolla's.

And we will all go together when we go.
Ev'ry Hottenhot and ev'ry Eskimo.
When the air becomes uranious,
And we will all go simultaneous.
Yes we all will go together
When we all go together,
Yes we all will go together when we go.



Oh yeah before I forget: The north pole icecap floats on top of the ocean like an icecube in a glass of water. Dunk an icecube into a glass of water, put a stripe at the waterlevel and tell me how much sealevels have risen when the icecube has melted


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I don't believe it. If that much ice has melted wouldn't the oceans levels be alarmingly high

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The north pole icecap floats on top of the ocean like an icecube in a glass of water. Dunk an icecube into a glass of water, put a stripe at the waterlevel and tell me how much sealevels have risen when the icecube has melted

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Wiccan_Seeker said:

Thats the thing: the North Pole is a giant icecube in the glass of water which is the ocean. If the entire north pole icecap melted it wouldnt rise sealevel because sealevel is already pushed up by the buoyancy effects of the ice. (water displacement, basic physics most scientists have overlooked)

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Makes sense.

Would the dilution of the ocean be much of a concern, since the ice caps are fresh water? The salt to water ratio would drop, I wonder if this would affect current life under the sea much..... If it would, Epsom would make billions in government contracts to prevent it from happening... Which means the Mormons would get very rich and would take over the world.... 

I was personally looking forward to seeing the ocean's water level raise several inches, I favor the submersion of the West and East Coast, and the Mississippi River becoming an extension of the Gulf of Mexico (bringing the ocean to me! ).


Peace.