A last slender strut of old ice linking frozen land and icy sea has collapsed leaving the entire Wilkins Ice Shelf vulnerable to complete disintegration in the next few years:
An ice bridge linking a vast shelf of ice to two islands in Antarctica has snapped, providing the latest evidence of rapid climate change, say scientists. Satellite images have revealed that a 25 mile long strip of ice, which is believed to have pinned the Wilkins Ice Shelf in place since the beginning of recorded history, had broken at its narrowest point.
Closer to home, cryologists are keeping a watchful eye on Arctic warming:
Arctic ice continued its decline this winter, with hardy, thicker old ice increasingly being replaced with quick-to-melt, thinner young ice, according to a new report by NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
But to hear one GOP fossil tell it, this isn't a matter for science or satellites or data to weigh in on. No, it's all a matter of
theology, or one man's convoluted version anyway.
Since Rep. Shimkus (R - Wingnut) probably thinks the planet is 6000 years old, we probably shouldn't count off for science points. What's amusing is this clown thinks he's making perfect sense; the dinos, after all, got along just fine, this is a carbon starved planet! The fact that half or more of the present day population of the United States would be at the bottom of an ocean in Shimkus' purported prehistoric paradise, including at times and places vast portions of his home state, likely never penetrated any of the sealed off compartments banging around in his pointy, little empty head. Funny, yeah, and deeply disturbing as this affable willful idiot happens to sit on the House Energy Committee.
Shimkus is no doubt a likable guy. But the pernicious rejection of empirical evidence consuming the right like raging mind cancer on everything from climate change to the Great Depression is beginning to resemble little more than the stubborn reaction of an ill-mannered adolescent loser. The kind of immature dolt who threatens to toss the game board in the air when getting their ass handed to them in a game of Trivial Pursuit. Which would be fine, if you're fourteen years-old, and we weren't all trapped on the global board together with no where else to go.
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