# Why global warming can lick my balls. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 28, 2003, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-global-warming-can-lick-my-balls/151395 "2003-01-28T02:33:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-global-warming-can-lick-my-balls/151395/21 "2003-01-31T02:49:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Harborwolf \* > \*\*The problem isn’t the ice in the water melting. It’s the ice supported by a land mass (i.e. the antarctic continent) breaking off or melting that would cause the problem. \*\* Well, yeah. The South Pole. But not the North, that’s what I’m talking about. Per the OP, “…global warming will have melted the ice caps enough that a shiping route would be able to cut through the artic. That fucking sucks.” Clearly it is written so that a North Pole shipping lane is a problem. How much will the ocean levels rise just from the water expanding as it warms? ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-global-warming-can-lick-my-balls/151395/22 "2003-01-31T06:12:05Z")
Global Warming does have a bad rap. But consider this: Is all life perishing REALLY all that terrible? Meditate on it a while and I think you’ll see what’s right. Contact your local S.C.O.U.R.G.E. recruiter and ask how you can help! ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-global-warming-can-lick-my-balls/151395/23 "2003-01-31T08:47:56Z")
You know, Karp, if you have a dog, you can just spread some peanut butter on your nuts… ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-global-warming-can-lick-my-balls/151395/24 "2003-01-31T08:54:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by John Carter of Mars \* > \*\ ***Karp2381** ; I’m not going to bother to place links, but this is the fourth post of yours I’ve read, and this is the fourth time I’ve seen you use the “lick my balls” phrase. > > Got a real hangup there, eh Dude? \*\* I say we chop 'em off, and send one to each of the Barsoomian moons! You with me? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-global-warming-can-lick-my-balls/151395/25 "2003-01-31T10:54:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Harborwolf \* > \*\*posted by js\_africanus > > The problem isn’t the ice in the water melting. It’s the ice supported by a land mass (i.e. the antarctic continent) breaking off or melting that would cause the problem. \*\* Also, I believe it is helped along by the volume of water expanding because it is warmer, not so muich because the ice has melted. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-global-warming-can-lick-my-balls/151395/26 "2003-01-31T10:56:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by js\_africanus \* > \*\*Why would a shipping lane through the Artic “fucking suck”? Since the mass of the ice displaces the same amount of water as the mass of the melted water, it will not affect ocean levels. So what is the big problem with the Arctic ice cap melting? \*\* Won’t somebody think of the polar bears’ balls? ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-global-warming-can-lick-my-balls/151395/27 "2003-01-31T17:37:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*Won’t somebody think of the polar bears’ balls? \*\* And what about the children!? Won’t somebody think of the children!? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-global-warming-can-lick-my-balls/151395/28 "2003-01-31T18:04:13Z")
I’ll be right back. I’m gonna see if I can make a snow angel with my ball sac. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-global-warming-can-lick-my-balls/151395/29 "2003-01-31T18:17:47Z")
Aaawwwww! **Karp2381** ’s _lonely_! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-global-warming-can-lick-my-balls/151395.md?page=1)