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A Preview Of Holdren’s Ice Free Winters

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Winter is still nine weeks away.

http://seaice.alaska.edu/gi/observatories/barrow_webcam

Most preschoolers understand that you need sunshine to warm things up. When the sun sets, it gets cold. If the sun set for 4-6 months, it would get really cold. But not John Holdren.

…if you lose the summer sea ice, there are phenomena that could lead you not so very long thereafter to lose the winter sea ice as well. And if you lose that sea ice year round, it’s going to mean drastic climatic change all over the hemisphere.  – John Holdren, 2009

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20090119_10989.mp3

Here is my interpretation.  If you elect a clueless president, the White House gets filled with clueless people.

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