Arctic Ice in Death Spiral ..."It's not going to recover,"

[RedEarth]

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 20, 2010 (IPS) - The carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have melted the Arctic sea ice to its lowest volume since before the rise of human civilisation, dangerously upsetting the energy balance of the entire planet, climate scientists are reporting.

"The Arctic sea ice has reached its four lowest summer extents (area covered) in the last four years," said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in the U.S. city of Boulder, Colorado.

The volume - extent and thickness - of ice left in the Arctic likely reached the lowest ever level this month, Serreze told IPS.

"I stand by my previous statements that the Arctic summer sea ice cover is in a death spiral. It's not going to recover," he said.



http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52896

.....see also

http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/22/nsidc-serreze-arctic-sea-ice-volume-record-low-death-spiral/#more-33693

[xchrom]

1. Recommend

[indepat]

2. Is man's inhumanity to man possibly even exceeded by man's colossal arrogance and

unfathomable stupidity? :shrug:

[xchrom]

4. i don't think i know anything anymore. nt

[Uncle Joe]

7. I see those as two sides of the same coin.

:-(

[Lorien]

10. +1.

:-(

[HereSince1628]

3. Much more representative of the loss than extensity (area) of sea ice.

wow! Just, Wow!

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. for some reason, I feel like a ....dinosaur.

[dgibby]

9. Welcome to the Tar Pits. n/t

[Grinchie]

11. Didn't the Tar Pits just disappear like the Oil in the Gulf?

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, RedEarth.

[Tutankhamun]

8. "Global warming is just a liberal scheme concocted to control every aspect of our lives."

This is the actual argument against regulating pollution and incentivizing green business.

"Liberals just want to control everyone's life for the fun of it."

"Oh, and the scientists are just lying (as with evolution)."

I don't need to create a straw man -- the RW does that job for me every day.

[Overseas]

12. K&R! //nt

[bread_and_roses]

13. What is there to say? This is so awful

We're on a death spiral too - and oblivious.