Arctic explorers get nasty surprise: rain

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63Q47820100427

Arctic explorers get nasty surprise: rain

(Reuters) - In what looks to be another sign the Arctic is heating up quickly, British explorers in Canada's Far North reported on Tuesday that they had been hit by a three-minute rain shower over the weekend.

The rain fell on the team's ice base off Ellef Rignes island, about 3,900 km (2,420 miles) north of the Canadian capital, Ottawa.

"It's definitely a shocker ... the general feeling within the polar community is that rainfall in the high Canadian Arctic in April is a freak event," said Pen Hadow, the team's expedition director.

"Scientists would tell us that we can expect increasingly to experience these sorts of outcomes as the climate warms," he told Reuters in a telephone interview from London.

The Arctic is heating up three times more quickly than the rest of the Earth. Scientists link the higher temperatures to the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.

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[joshcryer]

1. Feedbacks, baby.

[OKIsItJustMe]

3. Here's a related but (to me) more disturbing feedback

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=244654&mesg_id=244654

[joshcryer]

4. Thanks for pointing that to me again, I'd actually rec'd it. :)

And I agree, it is more disturbing, by and large. Rain may not actually be considered a feedback, but I feel it is. I think I'll go kick that other thread too.

[Nihil]

5. Not sure how much point there is in that though ...

> ... I'd actually rec'd it. :)

... seeing as how both this one and the linked one are being actively
unrec'd by some people at the moment ... (I rec'd both but one stayed
at the same net value whilst the other went down by 2).

Might be time to take another break from the pissing match around here.

[The Doctor.]

2. Yet the power of ignorance still seems to prevail.

The human race will survive this... one way or another. I just hope that once we've recovered, spreading anti-reason, anti-science, and abject bullshit in order to influence policy will be punishable by sterilization.

And fines.

And seizure of all property.

And expulsion from society into the wastelands.

That would be a start.