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A Convenient Paradox

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An Inconvenient Truth is a documentary by Al Gore about global warming. I just wanted to share an amusing thought.

…the Great Lakes are the remnants of that huge lake… one day it broke, and all that fresh water came rushing out, ripping open the St. Lawrence there, and it diluted the salty dense cold water, made it fresher and lighter so it stopped sinking, and that pump shut off.

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The North Atlantic Heat Pump

And Europe went back into an ice age for another 900 to 1000 years… Now, of course, that’s not going to happen again because the glaciers of North America are not there… Is there any other big chunk of ice anywhere near there?  Oh, yeah [camera pans over to Iceland].

So I suppose this means that global warming will turn off the heat pump (which caused an Ice Age) and will cancel each other out?

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  1. OMGDude says:

    Kanya Kusano, Program Director for the Earth Simulator at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology, compares computer climate modeling used to support the man-made global warming theory to “ancient astrology.”

    He states that the IPCC’s “conclusion that from now on atmospheric temperatures are likely to show a continuous, monotonous increase should be perceived as an unprovable hypothesis.”

    Shunichi Akasofu, head of the International Arctic Research Center in Alaska, agrees: “IPCC’s theory that atmospheric temperature has risen since 2000 in correspondence with [carbon dioxide increases] is nothing but a hypothesis.”

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