The Arctic is Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the Planet

[Modem Butterfly]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/11/08/globalwarming.reut/index.html

OSLO, Norway (Reuters) -- Global warming is heating the Arctic almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that threatens millions of livelihoods and could wipe out polar bears by 2100, an eight-nation report said on Monday.

The biggest survey to date of the Arctic climate, by 250 scientists, said the accelerating melt could be a foretaste of wider disruptions from a build-up of human emissions of heat-trapping gases in the earth's atmosphere.

The "Arctic climate is now warming rapidly and much larger changes are projected," according to the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), funded by the United States, Canada, Russia, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Finland.

[Catfight]

1. Nothing to see here...move along....n/t

[rabid_nerd]

2. A major storm is expected to form over New York

The Day After Tomorrow... (pun intended, not really)

[HeeBGBz]

4. It's not nice to rape Mother Nature n/t

[cubsfan forever]

3. No doubt n/t

Professor 2

[booksenkatz]

5. Well, as long as gays can't get married. That's all that matters now.

Let the mountains fall into the sea, just don't let gays get married.

I can't believe this is my country.

[htuttle]

6. Buh, bye Florida, Louisiana, much of the Gulf Coast

Couple more inches of water in the ocean, and the next hurricane season will be that 'real rain come to wash the scum off the streets' Travis Bixel talked about.

I'd like to say it's been nice to know you, but that would be lying.

[scarpa43]

10. I think you mean Travis Bickle

From Taxi Driver?:headbang:

[wickywom]

7. A friend of mine believes the Gov. is expecting...

the sea levels to rise over 12 inches whem some gargantuan piece of ice breaks off in the coming years and melts very rapidly...
Tis why he says they decided to build a base camp in the middle of all that oil...

and they are stealing energy from the lithosphere..
.. for mind control experiments....

[Jackpine Radical]

8. So Florida becomes

a self-limiting problem. They put Shrubbie in office, Shrubbie submerges them in glacial melt.

[GiovanniC]

11. WHEW!

It sure is a good thing that blue areas like New England, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, New York, et cetera are nowhere near the ocean!

[htuttle]

13. New York will be like Venice someday

But taller. And probably crabbier.

[On the Road]

9. Over Christmas, I'm Going to be in Northeastern China

It used to be twenty below in the winter, and supposedly it's warmed up about by about ten degrees in my lifetime.

[snippy]

12. This is what happens when people vote republican. n/t