Global Climate Change is a myth...the same way the sun doesn't always come up in the east..

Or maybe not...according to a new study of the Greenland ice sheet just published, Global Warming Deniers are completely and utterly full of shit. Okay, the report doesn't actually put it quite that succinctly, but it is the inevitable conclusion one can draw from the report. In it they have found that since 1979, when studies of the ice sheet started in earnest, an additional 17,000 square kilometers per year has melted. That is the equivalent of an area the size of Great Britain vanishing every 5 years.

Now that the Intellectual Luddites have taken over control of the US House of Representatives I know that it has become fashionable again to thumb ones' nose at nerdy scientists armed with their nerd-charts and their scraggly nerd-beards, but one would hope that the time will soon be upon us when even the most highly paid whore in Congress can no longer squawk about global warming being a "myth" without realizing themselves just how fucking stupid they look. I mean, just look at the freaking pictures that are out there. If the data confuses you, or the pie chart reminds you of Ms Pacman fine, but don't look at those glacier before/after pictures and tell me GW is not happening.

"There are none so blind as those that refuse to see" so the saying goes, and that is no more ably demonstrated than when one looks at the case of the wilfully blind King Canutes that continue to say that there's no "proof" that global warming is real, even as the glaciers and ice sheets melt, and the sea-levels rise. They sit around and and bicker over whether it is 'real', or solely man-made, or whether it is a part of the greater cyclical nature of the planet. That has always struck me as being rather like the crew of the Titanic standing around arguing over whether the iceburg that just ripped a bloody great hole in the side of the ship came from the North Pole or Greenland. In the end it doesn't friggin matter, because we're all going in the drink. And if this survey is right, by the time the Greenland ice sheet has completely melted, the sea levels will have risen 21 feet around the globe.

Hope you brought your swimming suit.