XPost: alt.global-warming, alt.atheism   
   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/18/2026 11:09 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 1/18/26 8:14 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >   
   >> A reversal here:   
   >>   
   >> https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/   
   >   
   > It's a La Nina year. You don't know what that means   
   > but an El Nino is higher than normal ocean   
   > temperatures and a La Nina is colder than normal   
   > ocean temperatures. It's a La Nina year.   
   >   
   > "It's so hot that it's cold!!!"   
   >   
   > Shocking that heat keeps making things hot...   
   >   
   > If the data is accurate -- it's not rigged -- why   
   > aren't the Maldives under water yet?  They were   
   > supposed to under, what was it? A foot of water?   
   > Starting like 10 years ago?   
   >   
   > Maybe the water from all the melted sea ice is   
   > hiding somewhere? Is that it?   
   >   
   > You explain to us how sea ice has been melting at   
   > an alarming rate, sea level is rising phenomenally   
   > high with all this melt water, whole island nations   
   > are due to vanish under the waves of these rising   
   > ocean water -- CAUSED BY MELTING ICE -- and yet   
   > even after 40 years of this melting it's never   
   > happened?   
   >   
      
   Science is not infallible; some predictions have been wrong.  The   
   central thesis is, however, still that of physicalism; in other words,   
   "the Universe doesn't give a shit."  Which means, "whole island nations"   
   may, indeed, slowly sink beneath the waves.  Time will tell.   
      
   Dawn   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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