Global warming 'past the point of no return'

[Boomer]

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

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.

They believe global warming is melting Arctic ice so rapidly that the region is beginning to absorb more heat from the sun, causing the ice to melt still further and so reinforcing a vicious cycle of melting and heating.

The greatest fear is that the Arctic has reached a "tipping point" beyond which nothing can reverse the continual loss of sea ice and with it the massive land glaciers of Greenland, which will raise sea levels dramatically.

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Sea ice naturally melts in summer and reforms in winter but for the first time on record this annual rebound did not occur last winter when the ice of the Arctic failed to recover significantly.

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[hwmnbn]

1. Aw geez....

First thing I see in the morning. We are doomed! Where's my coffee?

[acmavm]

2. Well isn't that just dandy news to wake up to on a Friday morning. That's

just more justification from worthless fucks like the pResident to say that it really doesn't matter anyway.

[demnan]

3. What a tragedy

There will be many more "New Orleans" all over the world. I just feel sorry for the animals most of all.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. We're now in the "Post" world

Post-modern.

Post-industrial.

Post-Peak-Oil.

Post-environmental-remediation.

Post-politics.

Post-hope.

--p!
Post Raisin Bran?

[Pooka Fey]

5. NGU

Never give up. :grouphug: