Reply #16: Let's Try Republican Logic... It would make the ocean less... [View All]

pleasant to drink... just like when the ice cubes in their Cokes. However, it represents no "real" problem for two very, umm... solid, reasons. First, since not many people really like to drink ocean water, if it gets watered down, it would have small impact--and any impact it would have would be likely to make even more people turn to consuming soft-drinks--and so Coca-Cola's stock price would go up--and thus the economy would be improved. Therefore via trickle down economics, more jobs would be created and fewer people would be poor. The second reason it's not of any "real" concern is that--as anybody knows--if the ice in your drink melts, all you need to do is go to the fridge and get more ice right from the ice-maker! So, if all the ice melts, we can just get more, right? Hmmm. Where's nature's ice maker? Well, we're not sure... but if we have to, we can build giant "ice makers" and just keep dumping the ice out on the polar caps. Yes, we Republi-Scientists have thought of everything... we realize that our ice-maker factories would need a great deal of energy, but that's easy, we can just build more power plants--and we have several options: oil, gas and/or coal--yes! Coal... Coal to ice... No more global warming theories. When we do restore all the ice on the caps we can begin... Oh, did I forget to mention that all this is totally confidential/secret? No need really, after all the whole idea that mankind could possibly affect the entire planet's climate is so absurd that nobody will believe it--even if all the ice on the caps does melt! Even then, our own refrigerators will make all the ice we individually need.

So. To recap. We can rebuild the ice caps as needed, but do so secretly since we wouldn't want anyone to think that Global Warming was real or anything--which it obviously isn't even if the ice caps do--for inxplicable reasons--melt, but no one would believe it anyway--and rightfully so since there's still ice in our refrigerators. :sarcasm:

Of course, in reality, instead of making the ocean less pleasant to drink, it would make it less salty and therefore more pleasant to drink! Though, it would still be so saline that it would cause the cells of your body to expel precious water in a hopeless attempt to balance the salinity of your blood/bodily fluids to that within the cells--and in doing so, they would die of thirst. Shortly, you'd follow.

Anyone who can grasp the notion of just how huge a balloon filled with one single ton of CO2 is, and then consider how many millions of tons of the stuff we're responsible for releasing into the atmosphere, ought to be able to make the leap that we might indeed be the cause for the obvious increase in temperatures--which should itself be undeniable given the measurably more rapid melting of the glaciers and polar ice caps... there's just no room for denial.

Oh, and as others have pointed out, if the Gulfstream shuts down Britain's gonna get really, really cold by comparison to now--though with the overall warming, that would be offset a bit--but overall, it's likely to be a real catastrophe for them. We, on the other hand, already have vast areas that struggle with drought year after year--and that's going to get much more serious. A glass of ice-water may one day be like the most desirable thing (as though we were all residents of Hell).