Dear Santa: 'Global warming' is ruining Christmas

U.S. senator apologizes to jolly ol' elf for melting North Pole

Posted: December 24, 2011 9:00 pm Eastern

By Drew Zahn 2010 WorldNetDaily

U.S Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., is worried that "there is probably nothing we can do in time" to save Santa's workshop from the effects of "global warming."


NORTH BERGEN, NEW JERSEY - OCTOBER 19: U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) attends a rally. (Photo by Ramin Talaie/Getty Images)

"Dear Santa Claus," Menendez writes in a letter published in the left-leaning Huffington Post, "I am writing out of concern, because you may have to move from the North Pole due to the dramatic melting of Arctic sea ice."

According to Menendez, the North Pole may be reduced to open waterways by melting ice as soon as 2012, leaving him to ask of Santa, "What will happen to your house, your workshop, the elves' houses and your reindeer barns?"

Menendez is a supporter of granting the Environmental Protection Agency and its chief, Lisa Jackson – who also hails from New Jersey, having previously been the head of the state's Department of Environmental Protection – the power to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act, fearing the gas contributes to global climate change.

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"I'm supportive of the EPA power, and I think we have the votes to sustain it," New Jersey's Star-Ledger reports Menendez affirming, "but it will be close."

"Scientists overwhelmingly agree that polar ice is melting because of greenhouse gas pollution," Menendez asserts in his letter to Santa, "and I am working hard to reduce these emissions. But there is probably nothing we can do in time to save the North Pole."

As for the soon-to-be homeless Santa – if Menendez's predictions of massive ice melts come true – the senator proposes a solution to the jolly ol' elf:

"I want you to know that if you want to relocate to the beautiful state of New Jersey, I would be proud to assist you," Menendez writes.

He concludes in his letter to Santa, "Please know that I will work to mobilize the U.S. federal government to assist when you relocate. I am sure we can both agree that on a warming planet, we need to do all we can to save Christmas."

Just another brainless idiot.

Whether or not believe in global warming, you can't deny that the polar and Greenland ice caps are in retreat. With that said, melendez is a crook and an idiot.

(12-25-2010 09:26 AM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  "Scientists overwhelmingly agree that polar ice is melting because of greenhouse gas pollution," Menendez asserts in his letter to Santa,

When in doubt, make up your own facts.

(12-25-2010 11:20 AM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  Whether or not believe in global warming, you can't deny that the polar and Greenland ice caps are in retreat.

I can.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/200...-sten.html

And when I look here
http://www.nsidc.org

I don't see dramatic changes.

(12-25-2010 06:50 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(12-25-2010 11:20 AM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  Whether or not believe in global warming, you can't deny that the polar and Greenland ice caps are in retreat.

I can.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/200...-sten.html

And when I look here
http://www.nsidc.org

I don't see dramatic changes.

JUly 5, 1979

July 4, 2007

I don't know, I see quite a bit of retreat. Maybe I am reading it wrong.


Also, correct me if I am wrong, but it was my understanding that while Antarctic surface glaciers in East Antarctica is holding steady, the sea ice concentration of West Antarctica was retreating both above and below the surface of the Antarctic Sea.

PLEASE explain how the entire solar system's warming is a result of my driving my SUV.

I'd also like to know why opening up Greenland to farming is a bad thing.

(12-26-2010 11:21 AM)rickheel Wrote:  PLEASE explain how the entire solar system's warming is a result of my driving my SUV.

I never said it was.

(12-26-2010 11:55 AM)Paul M Wrote:  I'd also like to know why opening up Greenland to farming is a bad thing.

Maybe it is and maybe it isnt. I'm not making value judgements on global warming. Just observations about what looks like a retreating arctic ice cap.

(12-26-2010 11:55 AM)Paul M Wrote:  I'd also like to know why opening up Greenland to farming is a bad thing.

I think it's the Empire State Building being under water thing that concerns the left.

(12-26-2010 09:18 AM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  JUly 5, 1979

July 4, 2007

I don't know, I see quite a bit of retreat. Maybe I am reading it wrong.

What's interesting is that the retreat is really only seen in the last few years leading up to 2007.

For example, compare the July 5, 1979 image versus July 5, 2000, and they're very similar.

I know that for the past several years, a 'Greenland Block' high pressure system has buckled the jet stream and have made the Arctic region unusually mild. But what it often does is displace the bone-chilling arctic air abnormally southward toward the Canadian Prairies and, sometimes, into the northern US. It happened again in early-to-mid December 2010, where almost all of the US experienced much colder than normal temps, but northern Canada and Greenland were much milder than normal.

I don't deny global warming... I actually believe it has taken place cumulatively. However, the jury is still out on how much - if any - influence man has on it. And certain elements of the Left have been exploiting this as an 'opportunity' to whip up hysteria and create the need for - voila - massive government intervention (to be honest, I think some politicians privately view climate change as more of a blessing than the curse they say it is, as it provides a convenient springboard for more concentrated power).