"On May 10, this arch disintegrated, leaving the oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic vulnerable to being swept south where it will melt away," Dyke told Seeker. The ice arch across the Nares Strait, which separates Greenland from Ellesmere Island in Canada's far northeast, gave way two months earlier than usual, said Laurence Dyke, a paleoglaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. Temperatures and other features over the Arctic are highly varied so the Warmists can always cherrypick some bit that suits their propagandaĮarth's already-beleaguered northern icecap suffered another blow this month with the early collapse of a barrier that kept some of Arctic's most durable ice in place. The Arctic as a whole is no more melted than it was in 1940 On careful reading below, however, we find that it is only a few bits of the Arctic that are collapsing. (Click "Refresh" on your browser if background colour is missing) See here or here for the archives of this site For a list of backups viewable at times when the main blog is "down", see here. The blogspot version of this blog is HERE. So their personal emotional needs lead them to press on us all a delusional belief that the planet needs "saving". Many Greenies (other than Al Gore and his Hollywood pals) have that instinct too but in the absence of strong orthodox religious committments they have to convince themselves that the world NEEDS them to live in an ascetic way.
Monasteries and nunneries were once full of such people - with the Byzantine stylites perhaps the most striking example. There is an "ascetic instinct" (or perhaps a "survivalist instinct") in many people that causes them to delight in going without material comforts.