Report: Global Warming "Past the Point of No Return"

[Faygo Kid]

A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover. Scientists fear that the Arctic has now entered an irreversible phase of warming which will accelerate the loss of the polar sea ice that has helped to keep the climate stable for thousands of years.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article312997.ece

[Az]

1. Yay!

Go team antiscience! This is what happens when you let a group of people that think the end of the world is a good thing run things.

[theHandpuppet]

2. Another excerpt

"Current computer models suggest that the Arctic will be entirely ice-free during summer by the year 2070 but some scientists now believe that even this dire prediction may be over-optimistic, said Professor Peter Wadhams, an Arctic ice specialist at Cambridge University.

"When the ice becomes so thin it breaks up mechanically rather than thermodynamically. So these predictions may well be on the over-optimistic side," he said.

Meanwhile, at the U.N., John Bolton fights the global community tooth and nail over any organized efforts to combat global warming, which as we all know is a liberal myth. We shant worry our pretty little heads anyway, since The Rapture is nigh!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. OK. Now I officially want the right wing to be correct.

:banghead:

[slor]

4. I hate republicans n/t

[crikkett]

5. oh, this is nothing a little nuclear winter can't cure

take 2 of these & call me in the morning

:nuke: :nuke:

[wellst0nev0ter]

6. Mission Accomplished

god I hate these insufferable fucking morons.

[fujiyama]

7. Keepin this kicked

Interesting article.

We could expect more flooding in coastal cities all over the world.

[Faygo Kid]

8. Thanks. Would like to see this noticed.

I am in my 50s. I will probably make it, but allowing this to go on without even the smallest effort to stop it is insane. Even rich Republicans have children and grandchildren. Britney Spears' becoming a mother will get 100 times the attention this report will. Damn.