How could this be? How is it possible? We’re ruined.
Based on Al Gore’s assurances that the Greenland icecap was melting and that sea levels were rising, we invested all our spare cash in future beachfront property in South Dakota.
The Australian Broadcasting Company reports the story of our personal economic doom and the current shoreline’s salvation:
Greenland’s icecap has thickened slightly in recent years despite concerns that it is thawing out due to global warming, says an international team of scientists.
A team led by Professor Ola Johannessen, at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Norway, report their findings online ahead of print publication in the journal Science.
The 3,000-metre thick Greenland icecap is a key concern in debates about climate change because a total melt would raise world sea levels by about 7 metres. And a runaway thaw might slow the Gulf Stream that keeps the North Atlantic region warm.
Glaciers at sea level have been retreating fast because of a warming climate, making many other scientists believe the entire icecap is thinning. But satellite measurements showed that more snowfall is falling and thickening the icecap, especially at high altitudes, say Johannessen and team.
The entire IHateTheMedia.com fortune is tied up in that South Dakota land. That’s what we get for listening to Gore.
Source: Reuters via ABC.gov.au
