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I can't speak for the conservatives, because I don't think of myself
as one, but I would hope that if the Arctic melted enough that ship
travel through it became routine that they would take that into
account in their strategic planning.<br>
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Most skeptics I've seen, myself included, believe that the earth is
indeed warming, some minor inconsistencies between the various data
sets aside. Has been for a couple hundred years or more. What we
are skeptical of is the amount of warming attributed to CO2, and are
skeptical of many of the scarier predictions of the effects of the
steady increase of CO2 in our atmosphere. We also disagree on what
our priorities should be right now as a country and as a global
population.<br>
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The arctic is fluctuating quite a bit year-to-year, month-to-month,
and even day-to-day. For example, Ted posted a while back about how
the extent of arctic sea ice tied for the lowest amount for (I
think) the month since at least 2002. If you look at it now, you'll
see that it is now about dead even between the highest and lowest
extents for this time of year since 2002. I wouldn't put much stock
in the arctic is melting away theory right now, just as I wouldn't
suggest that it's on it's way back to pre-industrial levels of ice
(if we can even guess what those levels were). What seems more
likely to me is that it fluctuates dramatically all the time.<br>
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Arctic sea ice extent link:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/AMSRE_Sea_Ice_Extent_L.png">http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/AMSRE_Sea_Ice_Extent_L.png</a><br>
<br>
Paul<br>
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On 04/18/2011 07:30 AM, Joe Campbell wrote:
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cite="mid:BANLkTi=ftWR4jdFqVu=qK3AtRikoySs7Eg@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Maybe if we can get the military to admit to global
warming, the conservatives will believe it.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Tom
Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>></span>
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padding-left: 1ex;">Courtesy of the April 25, 2011 edition of
the Army Times.<br>
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Military rethinks polar command as ice caps melt<br>
<br>
WHAT’S UP: Melting polar ice caps are prompting the military
to redraw its<br>
map dividing the globe into combatant commands. Pentagon
projections show<br>
new shipping lanes will appear around the North Pole during
the next 20 to<br>
30 years, a senior defense official said. Previous master
plans<br>
essentially ignored the Arctic region, technically chopping it
up among<br>
U.S. Northern Command, U.S. European Command and U.S. Pacific
Command.<br>
“Before, to be honest, I’m not sure who had the lead on it,”
said one<br>
senior defense official.<br>
<br>
WHAT’S NEXT: NORTHCOM will take over the Arctic area, and
EUCOM will be<br>
responsible for Russia’s mostly frozen northern border. PACOM
was squeezed<br>
out of the region, according to the new Unified Command Plan.
The plan,<br>
approved by the White House in early April, has no immediate
impact on<br>
troops and bases. Any further shift in strategy will “depend
on how<br>
climate change continues,” the senior defense official said.<br>
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Seeya round town, Moscow.<br>
<br>
TomHansen<br>
Moscow, Idaho<br>
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"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects
it to<br>
changeand the Realist adjusts his sails."<br>
<br>
- Unknown<br>
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