excess ice is the ice added to the northern hemisphere from the start of the ice ages, about five million years. There was relatively little polar ice then.
platitude??? How ironic, since you lefties have been twisting reality to suit your meme for years.
"fantasy about the Med, in your post above, is classic straw man/red herring deflection". So you are a Med-drying-denier? LOL Do some research.
"Earth’s surface temperatures are rising sharply. (I doubt they’re rising because of an excess of ice. That doesn’t compute.)" You are looking at things back asswards. If you only believe what suits your meme, you will always be ignorant of the truth.
"We know temperatures are rising and we know why. Many factors contribute, the chief of which is polluting the atmosphere with carbon by humans." Of course, you have no solid proof, just an agreement among like-minded "scientists"
"deniers, aka tongues for hire, are always ready to argue the toss on behalf of vested interests." It seems that you think if you shut off all descent, your GW BS will be de facto accepted as true. Won't happen. There are way too many folks who still have functioning BS detectors.
If you succeed in wrecking the world economy, and making life miserable for everyone except those at the top (you won't be one of them), do you expect to go down in history as our planet's savior?
