Saturday, May 05, 2007

Artic Melting Ahead Of Schedule

I was going to make a sarcastic joke here about the Artic vetoing our timetable for its melting, but I'll refrain. This is pretty serious stuff and needs mainstream attention-
The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.S. ice expert said on Tuesday...

...No ice on the Arctic Ocean during summer would be a major spur to global warming, said Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Center in Colorado.

"Right now ... the Arctic helps keep the Earth cool," Scambos said in a telephone interview. "Without that Arctic ice, or with much less of it, the Earth will warm much faster."...

That's been the problem with global warming... it hasn't been happening fast enough!

Any possible solutions?-
Asked what could fix the problem -- the topic of a new report by the intergovernmental panel to be released on Friday in Bangkok -- Scambos said a large volcanic eruption might hold Arctic ice melting at bay for a few years.

But he saw a continued warm-up as inevitable in the coming decades.

Okay... so more volcanos?? Why not try dropping a big ice cube into the ocean?

Let's face it, we have no good answer on what to do here.

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