Home/BlogThe recent discovery of 80-year old photos of Greenland before we melted most of the ice there provides a stark reminder of how much humans have destroyed our home, Planet Earth.
One of the old photos shows the pristine, ice-covered landscape, no doubt home to all kinds of cold-weather species of organisms:
The view of the same landscape today (from a slightly different angle), sadly, shows how warming has decimated the region, with all kinds of invasive species taking hold in the fragile soil:
So, on this Earth Day, I hope we can all pause to reflect on what a warmer Earth means for our future.
And our children’s future.
And our grandchildren’s future.
And our great grandchildren’s future.
I think you see where I’m going.
I hope you all have a miserable, guilt-ridden Earth Day.
So that MY life might have meaning.
🙂
I’m doubled over in agony, angst & anxiety….my opportunity to be a sustainovator has passed for another year….
The Earth and I thank you for your sacrifice.
three cheers for Greenland! Those of us in Florida will happily sacrifice our coastal cities for the warmth of Greenlanders. Those of us in the west will readily give up agriculture, so long as Siberians are a little more comfy!
Ha ha, funny. Meanwhile, care to comment on the evidence that finds an accelerating ice loss in Greenland?
http://davidappell.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-picture-of-accelerating-greenland-ice.html
Global Warming ruined their ice fishing industry! Now all those people flocking to Greenland for ice fishing are going to have to go to Minnesota instead!
Roy,
Are you sure that second picture is from Greenland and not from Norway, my home country?
what difference does that make? 😉
Trees
Old Nordic joke. it is easy to find your way out from the Icelandic forests – just stand up.
Of course, the Vikings didn’t know that joke – 30% of Iceland was forrested in those days. Icelanders today live in constant fear they may have to relive those days again.
All due to sheep, I visited Þórsmörk in Iceland where they kept the sheep out and trees grow taller than humans.
Maybe someone should introduce sheep to Þórsmörk and see whether those also grow taller than humans.
Honesty…
Competency…
You are so easy to fact check and so full of tricks yet nothing new ever comes from you.
http://skepticalscience.net/pdf/rebuttal/global-warming-positives-negatives-advanced.pdf
Fundamentalists don’t understand jokes, see the exploding climate sceptics video.
Warmists have the best tricks. One of them turned about 1000 years of climate history, previously known to encompass the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age, into a time of amazingly flat average global temperatures (with a total range of only about 0.4 Celsius degrees). Then by cleverly introducing a suspect instrumental temperature record he created… a hockey stick!
Perhaps few people know for sure whether the trick was intentional or the warmist tricked himself as well, but alas, the secret of the trick was discovered. See this article from 2004, The MIT Technology Review:
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/403256/global-warming-bombshell/
M, shouldn’t you be spending your time harassing 007, rather than me?
You always were a cunning linguist, Roy.
Skeptical Science? Honesty? Competency? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahhahahahahahahahahahahah!
I feel better now.
Parsons! Isn’t it good to know that Dr Spencer bothers to read your comments?
M, skeptical science, that bastion of truth? Where are the worse storms? And all the other visions of doom?
How many of those “environmentalists” drove to their local Earth Day festivities in their SUV’s?
Nature continues to prove you WRONG!
“Ah, Humor, it is a difficult concept.” Lt Savik
Geirangerfjord
You forgot to mention that greedy corporations might now be better able to plunder the resources of the once pristine island and help dirty industries make filthy money for selfish, non-socially-conscious shareholders who have huge carbon footprints.
oh, yeah, that too.
Is crowd funding available?
Huge Carbon Buttprints like Al “an inconvenient moron” Gore, Barry Soetoro and AF 1, Hollyweird, etc?!?!?!
I think you sprained your tongue on that one, Roy
Thanks (I guess), Dr. Spencer.
That scene of an alien ecosystem invasion is terrifying.
Look at them trees creeping up the sides of the pristine mountains!
The last time time we had this type of tragic warming, modern humans evolved. I’m surprised some sort of super-human evolutionary disaster isn’t pictured in the beautiful, terrible, tragic woods.
Yep! We better start moving to the poles to survive.
The Earth and I thank you for your sacrifice.
Fundamentalists don’t understand jokes, see the exploding climate sceptics video.sd
I think a photo comparison between summer and winter is posted above. I know which season I would like. Give me warmth please, winter sucks! (From an Aussie, who loves hot weather).
The second picture is the way I want to live. Trees, blue water and fishing from the shore. I love climate change like this and I am willing to bet that Greenlanders feel that way also. Has any organization surveyed them about how they view their environment now as opposed to the times in the first picture? (-WW II)
Love the “wind generator” on the side of the plane for power!!
Just look at all the damage CO2 is doing, lol 😉 https://mybeautifulearth.withgoogle.com/
If CO2 is so good for plants, why are there no plants on Venus? Or Mars?
Earth Day is a day to protest against the hoax that carbon dioxide warms, when in fact it cools, but by less than 0.1 degree. Leave your lights all full ON in protest.
Doug Cotton: Are you ever going to submit your absurd claims anywhere other than your own vanity press?
If not, why not?
We melted most of the ice, did we Roy?
Funny how it was just as warm in the Arctic back in the 1930’s …
http://climate-change-theory.com/JanMayen.jpg
Try digesting this article about the Arctic, Roy. It might make you feel less guilty about us melting the ice which back radiation can’t do. Have we all been up there with hair dryers?
http://www.john-daly.com/polar/arctic.htm
There’s more here of course …
http://climate-change-theory.com
Place two ice cubes under two cold taps (eg in your bathroom vanity basin and in the bath) and run water at different rates. That ice with the faster running water melts faster, OK?
So too does sea ice melt faster when ocean currents underneath it flow faster, and also when wind above it blows faster. Ice is expanding in Antarctica where there’s not much flowing water underneath.
In general, ice reflects most solar radiation, and absolutely none of the back radiation from carbon dioxide (at lower temperatures) gets past the very first layer of molecules.
Yes, you would in fact melt more of the Greenland ice with a single hair dryer than would all the carbon dioxide in the air above.
You are re-joining the ranks of the alarmists, Roy, when I have been explaining to you (here and in my book) that tropospheric temperatures would never have been isothermal in the absence of upward advection and radiating molecules. Such a state is not in accord with the Second Law. Your Item 6 in your “Misunderstood .. ” article is wrong, Roy.
Isn’t it funny, Doug Cotton, how the only ones who will publish your silly science are the vanity presses that stroke your ego….
IF you were right, Roy then there would be isothermal conditions in a Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube despite the huge g-force resulting from centrifugal force.
But there is in fact a huge gravito-thermal effect in the vortex tube due to the huge g-force which is about a million times Earth’s gravity. So you can’t argue with empirical evidence Roy. The brilliant 19th century physicist who was first to estimate closely the size of air molecules was right about the Loschmidt gravito-thermal effect, and there has never since been a correct rebuttal thereof – I can fault all attempts.
So you are wrong, Roy.
i assume the writer of this article is doing thier part by not owning a vehicle or house nor indulging in things like climate control, vacation, shopping, or other activities that peomote ANY use of the planet. grass hut and fig leaves only, i hope.
See …
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/04/american-thinker-publishes-a-stinker/#comment-111517
“And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.” Gen 1:31a.
A good job well done!