Bad News for Bears!
I watched a show on TV about the search for the North West passage. In the end a pointless task, as the route would never be the same due to the ices habit of freezing wherever it wanted! Can you believe it!? Very inconsiderate I think *wink* Roald Amundsen was the last to look for it and kind of found it too, well the route for that winter at least. People have been looking for a new way ever since!
Guess what! The famed northwest passage will soon become a reality. You see that pesky ice is melting at such a rapid rate that in 100 years time there wont be any ice left in the Arctic! Isn't that great! Satellite pictures show that the extent of Arctic sea ice this month dipped some 20% below the long term average for September -- melting an extra 500,000 square kilometers, or an area twice the size of Quebec!
If current trends continue, the summertime Arctic Ocean will be completely ice-free well before the end of this century. The "Polar Dip" will become a reality! We swim with dolphins- why stop there! We can swim with polar bears and penguins and seals too! We're messing up this planet up at such a rate that we are actually causing climatic changes, aren't we clever!!
But really, I mean does it matter, are we humans actually going to make it another 100 years as an entity? The pandemic du jour, the Avian Influenza (bird flu) is most likely gonna sort a fair few million of us out. Hurricanes larger than we have ever seen before will waste a whole lot more of us, don't forget the war (this one and next!), and nuclear arms...
But I could be wrong and everythings gonna be peachy, the ice wont melt, all wars will stop and the world will become nuclear free! What a sec- what was that place called again? Oh yeah ..... Eden!! Just don't eat the apples!!
Nobody ever thinks of the polar bears, wont somebody please think of the bears!!
Guess what! The famed northwest passage will soon become a reality. You see that pesky ice is melting at such a rapid rate that in 100 years time there wont be any ice left in the Arctic! Isn't that great! Satellite pictures show that the extent of Arctic sea ice this month dipped some 20% below the long term average for September -- melting an extra 500,000 square kilometers, or an area twice the size of Quebec!
If current trends continue, the summertime Arctic Ocean will be completely ice-free well before the end of this century. The "Polar Dip" will become a reality! We swim with dolphins- why stop there! We can swim with polar bears and penguins and seals too! We're messing up this planet up at such a rate that we are actually causing climatic changes, aren't we clever!!
But really, I mean does it matter, are we humans actually going to make it another 100 years as an entity? The pandemic du jour, the Avian Influenza (bird flu) is most likely gonna sort a fair few million of us out. Hurricanes larger than we have ever seen before will waste a whole lot more of us, don't forget the war (this one and next!), and nuclear arms...
But I could be wrong and everythings gonna be peachy, the ice wont melt, all wars will stop and the world will become nuclear free! What a sec- what was that place called again? Oh yeah ..... Eden!! Just don't eat the apples!!
Nobody ever thinks of the polar bears, wont somebody please think of the bears!!
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