Will the melting of the Arctic ice pack signal the end of Santa Claus? Scientists estimate that within 100 years the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole will be entirely ice free during the summer season. But even sooner the ice will be so thin that it will no longer be able to support the weight of Santa's workshop complex.
This was one of the first things I thought about when I read a news story about the warming. Okay, I have a unique point of view. I tend to go off on my own intellectually in this way and ask questions that no one else is asking. Think about it though, when the Arctic ice is gone for good what will happen to Santa?
Santa has been around for a while now, after all. He is thought to have been born in Turkey around 280 A.D. which makes him around two thousand years old. He didn't move to the North Pole until after the United States was born so his workshop up there is a rather recent development but it is the only home that anyone alive has ever been known Santa to occupy.
My first reaction to the thought of Santa losing his Arctic digs was to grin to myself. It was kind of funny, in a sick sort of way, to picture the quaint little workshop breaking through the ice and slipping beneath the waves as terrified elves cling to chunks of ice and starving polar bears close in. You might not understand that but I grew up reading the National Lampoon and laughing at Gahan Wilson cartoons.
In fact, the whole climate change concept is a beautiful piece of catch-22 dark humor. The economy of the world is based on oil. By burning oil we are possibly warming the world, to what extent we don't know, as well as depleting the oxygen that we breathe faster than the biosphere can replenish it. But we can't stop burning the oil or we destroy the world economy. It is like the movie Saw, isn't it? Oh hey, so you are chained up somewhere and you will sit there till you die... unless... you free yourself with this bone saw... what is really the lesser of two evils?
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