Question:
Why is President Obama planning for more icebreakers in the Arctic? Doesn't he believe in Global Warming?
?
2015-09-01 13:46:24 UTC
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/us/politics/obama-to-call-for-more-icebreakers-in-arctic-as-us-seeks-foothold.html?_r=0

Al Gore said it would be ice free by this time.
Fourteen answers:
JimZ
2015-09-01 16:05:12 UTC
Wo

I'm feeling Verklempft.

I can't believe I agree with something Obama is doing.

I thought he would bow to Putin's breakers but he apparently decided to take a stand on the ice.
The Patriot
2015-09-02 05:41:31 UTC
Total strawman from Sage.



What's wrong with Obama trying to strengthen US's hands in the Arctic. If he didn't, the Republicans would be accusing him of backing off from Putin.



You can't win with deniers. They just keep moving goalposts.
Kano
2015-09-01 15:54:54 UTC
Ignoring climate change for now, the US needs new icebreakers, the US infrastructure is in a sad state of repair.

The trillions spent on green policies would've been better spent on repairing roads and bridges, building icebreakers (which are sorely needed) building coast guard rescue vessels and a lot of other things that need doing.
?
2015-09-01 14:02:22 UTC
I would consider it a wise move, if for no other reason than that as the Arctic Ocean becomes more ice free that there will more traffic there. More traffic means a greater possibility that there will be more people getting into trouble. Ice breakers will be needed to tend to emergencies and to advance research in the area. It is not likely that the Arctic Ocean will ice free during the freeze season anytime in the foreseeable future.



Al Gore? What is your strange fascination with Al Gore? Al Gore is not a scientist. Al Gore also never said that the Arctic Ocean would be ice free by now. Al Gore, at most, was quoting scientists that were saying the possibility exists for an ice free Arctic Ocean during the end of the melt season.
James
2015-09-01 15:21:39 UTC
He is planning for more icebreakers because he is opening up the Arctic to drilling, and there will almost inevitably be oil spills that need to be taken care of. It was hard enough to fix Deepwater Horizon in an ice free sea.



When did you ever hear a climate scientist (or Obama) talking about an ice free Arctic year-round?



Al Gore never said what you claim he said. I'd say you're lying, but I think it's become apparent to almost everyone that you lie constantly.



It's kind of amusing that "Anonymous" can't figure out how to read the link, but calls others dimwits.



EDIT: Anonymous is getting funnier and funnier, now he says



"I can't view the article...And right on cue one dimwit responds by saying that I can't figure out how to view it. Of course I can figure it out."



So what's your problem then, a religious objection to reading an article that mentions Obama? LOL.
anonymous
2015-09-02 20:12:04 UTC
Because he is a corporatist first. Everything else comes after
anonymous
2015-09-01 13:56:04 UTC
The key to our future is building a better environment – one where we appear at a well-publicized ribbon cutting for a new wind turbine so that environmentalist and activists believe in our commitment to clean and efficient sources of energy while we continue to punch holes in coral reefs offshore to suck up some more of that sweet black gold. That’s the American way!

Apart from a few tanker spillages, refinery explosions, human rights abuses and devastated ecosystems, The United States environmental record is exemplary.

Some people have questioned the dichotomy between our record profits and the skyrocketing gas prices. Lobbying politicians, funding regime changes, suppressing scientific research, reprinting all our marketing materials in a green font ... oil has become an ever more costly business. It is unfortunate that the countries with the largest remaining reserves of oil and gas happen to hate us, especially Canada.

It doesn’t help that we’ve been forced into expensive ventures such as deep-water drilling and oil sand extraction because loony left-wing activists have conspired to ban us from extracting the natural resources right on our own doorstep. Not to mention the pressure to invest in renewable energy.

We power the chainsaws that clear land for a bright new condominium complex.

We power the generators that provide emergency lights during a prison riot.

We power the helicopters that keep peace by neutralizing villages of threats.

We power communities in Nigeria by employing local militia to protect our people.

We power the trucks that carry goods across America, often jackknifing and killing families in station wagons.

We power the SUV that mom takes her kids to school in, before stopping at a sleazy hotel to f*** her husband’s best friend.

We power the slaughterhouse that provides food for your family.

We power the crematorium that incinerates your handsy stepdad once and for all.

We power the airplanes that carry c***sucker executives to golf retreats in tropical locations.

We power the Congressmen who further our policy agenda.

We are ruthless in maximizing value for our shareholders. By investing in the Oil Industry, you can be a part of a movement that began in 1908 with the invention of the internal combustion engine and continues to this day. The technology hasn’t changed that much - because that would change the revenue structure of the Oil Industry. That’s why our special Emerging Technologies Team identifies revolutionary inventors in the field of Energy Science, and as soon as one discovers how to run a car on water, they are summarily executed and never heard from again.
S
2015-09-01 16:23:20 UTC
for the same reason there are aircraft carriers all over the world- american interests. Ice will be present for a number of decades, especially in the winter. Summer ice is getting thinner and multi-year ice is disapearing.
Hey Dook
2015-09-01 18:44:40 UTC
Global warming does not mean the end of seasons. Even "true scientists" know that. "Honest" ones maybe not.
?
2015-09-01 17:39:36 UTC
8 dead cop in 11 days an he screwing around in Alaska.
anonymous
2015-09-01 16:13:50 UTC
Being a progressive, means being a complete moron.
Charsis
2015-09-01 16:36:03 UTC
Unfortunately I think he does believe in that fairy tail. Very very sad
TTown
2015-09-02 09:17:03 UTC
He has no beliefs outside of his Muslim faith.
anonymous
2015-09-01 13:52:07 UTC
He is under the delusion that there is Man Made Climate Change ?

He has no proof or evidence .


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