[Vision2020] From the Daily Show: EARTH: HOT OR NOT?

[Donovan Arnold]

>From the Writers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

"EARTH: HOT OR NOT?

Arctic sea ice has shrunk 30% since 1978, and could
disappear 
altogether within a hundred years. NASA scientist Dr.
Waleed Abdalati explains, 
"The most recent estimates suggest that the last time
we had an 
ice-free arctic was millions of years ago." So when it
comes to the skills 
you'll need in the future, add "a decent breast
stroke."

In the short term, this could actually be good news
for fish lovers, 
since the warmer arctic waters may wind up increasing
the populations of 
cod near the North Pole. And, as an added bonus, at
the rate the planet 
is going, if you like your cod boiled... well, pretty
soon, you'll be 
in for a real treat.

The warmer temperatures are, however, bad for polar
bears, who may find 
their habitats threatened. And the rising waters have
already proved a 
disaster in Santa's Workshop. Sadly, he chose to build
in a coastal 
area of the North Pole and to hire workers who were
only two feet high.

This, by the way, is the most important report to come
out of the 
national snow and ice data center since their
watershed 1978 report, "Don't 
Eat the Yellow Snow."

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