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Global Warming data is beyond worst case scenario
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by mtippett | January 11, 2008 at 12:30 pm
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Polar bear stuck on a sliver of sea ice as it melts and floats away from the mainland
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This is depressing and terrifying:
An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years.Greenland's ice sheet melted nearly 19 billion tons more than the previous high mark, and the volume of Arctic sea ice at summer's end was half what it was just four years earlier, according to new NASA satellite data obtained by The Associated Press.
"The Arctic is screaming," said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the government's snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colo.
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at 12:56 on January 11th, 2008
It's hard for me to call this good stuff, when it's so troubling-- the content of the story, that is. Well, at least India just launched a non-environmentally-friendly car that's cheap enough for hundreds of millions of new consumers in Asia to buy...that will surely help things improve.
at 13:03 on January 11th, 2008
mtippett, I like this story. It's important
At least one intelligent voice in this Newspaper
Climate change, relieves additional CO2 burried in melting ice
at 13:40 on January 11th, 2008
Hello,
The topic of global warming is very close to my heart and this is a great story - perhaps you and others could contribute thoughts and fears for the coming decade, or add updated details of scientists' current findings. I have lots of polar bear images that I'll add for you to extend your filmstrip. Great photos by the way.
~ Swan
at 14:15 on January 11th, 2008
mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Thanks to Swan, as well, for her great photos!
at 14:44 on January 11th, 2008
Thanks for this... I hope we all really like rain, not just those of us on the wet coast.
at 14:45 on January 11th, 2008
think on the positive side - now there can be sailing charters to the north pole. Great for tourism
at 15:03 on January 11th, 2008
@ matte, boats to the north pole coming from the south, like Mediterranean sea with all the bacterias
are considered the most dangerous destruction of our grill fish food source, the UV light rays from
destroyed ozone layer mutate the plancton genetically, "all we can destroy tourism" is nonsense.
Responsability for the environment means not, being the source of the problem.
at 11:42 on January 12th, 2008
I've got a pretty irreverent - at times dark - sense of humour but I am finding that I don't find Global Warming jokes funny these days. It's kind of like joking about Ethiopian droughts or the holocaust. Knowing that your kids may not make it to 40 can really kill a good punchline.
at 06:53 on March 10th, 2009
1. This is what polar bears do best! They wait on the ice for a fish to catch. If there are no fish they just move on to the next one!
2. They are not stranded at all. Polar bears can swim up to 60 miles (non stop)!
3. At the Davis Straight polar bear population has increased over the past 20 years from 850 to 2,100! Worst case scenario? I don't think so.
4. Reporting on Global Warming fails to mention that as some ice sheets are melting, others are growing!
at 11:35 on April 20th, 2009
Im not a doomsayer but i think drastic changes must be taken by the entire human race or we wont be around much longer the only way we can stop this without killing everything on this Earth is if we cut emissions by at least 90 percent. That means only essintial appliances should be used and absolutly no cars just freight trans and some public transit. We will have to live like the Omish until we can find a clen renewable source for everything but until or if that day comes than we will continiue to kill ourselfs and the world.