Greenland’s glaciers are melting twice as fast as previously believed

Hello there, Washington and Sacramento, is anybody at home? Global Warming is for real, so it’s time to do something about it: stop building more roads and support alternate means of transportation! And by that I don’t mean airplanes …

Greenland’s glaciers are melting twice as fast as previously believed, the result of a warming trend that renders obsolete predictions of how quickly the Earth’s oceans will rise over the next century, scientists said Thursday.

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“This study underscores the need to take swift, meaningful actions at home and abroad to address climate change,” said Vicki Arroyo, director of policy analysis at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The data highlights the lack of meaningful U.S. policy, she added: “This is the kind of study that should make people stay awake at night wondering what we’re doing to the climate, how we’re shaping the planet for future generations and, especially, what we can do about it.”

[BATN (San Francisco Chronicle): Glaciers melting, oceans rising much faster than feared ]

Posted in: Uncategorized | February 18, 2006 11:15 pm

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adron_bh, on February 21, 2006 @ 11:30 am

You know…

It’s colder AND hotter - generally more extreme because of this “theoretical” warming/cooling of the environment.

The thing I find interesting is it’s definately “probably” because of us but we don’t have any real solutions.

Even if we do something now, it’s most likely too late. The best we can do is to begin to prepare for some rough times ahead.

The great things for train fans (and scary) is that trains are about the only things that run in extreme weather.

So when all of this obscene heat and cold starts hitting us more and more each year, hurricanes start ripping up the coastal areas, deluges of rain hit the midlands, and other wierd situations, again and again the only service we’ll have will be trains probably. The North East Coast just dealt with that. The trains where delayed, but running. The airports where SHUT DOWN, and the roadways where barely able to be travelled.

All so very creepy and scary in many ways.