While the Republican party lies about science the processes of nature march on. Nature does not depend for the execution of its laws on us admitting they exist.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2011/020211.html
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Overview of conditions
Arctic sea ice extent averaged over January 2011 was 13.55 million square kilometers (5.23 million square miles). This was the lowest January ice extent recorded since satellite records began in 1979. It was 50,000 square kilometers (19,300 square miles) below the record low of 13.60 million square kilometers (5.25 million square miles), set in 2006, and 1.27 million square kilometers (490,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average.
Ice extent in January 2011 remained unusually low in Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait (between southern Baffin Island and Labrador), and Davis Strait (between Baffin Island and Greenland). Normally, these areas freeze over by late November, but this year Hudson Bay did not completely freeze over until mid-January. The Labrador Sea remains largely ice-free.
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Meanwhile we have the James Watt (secty of interior under Reagan) idea that "it does not matter what we do, Jesus will come and fix it all back up for us"... Even if one allows the underlying myth I think Jesus might be less angry if we don't tear up this pretty green planet up so much but maybe he really is the worlds most careless and indulgent parent. "It's ok about crashing the Ferrari, I'll just get you a new one".
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