Daily Archives: February 13, 2011

“The effects of melting ice and thawing permafrost, I think, will be major”

Since the mid-1970s, Alaska has warmed at three times the rate of the Lower 48 states, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. And with nearly two-thirds of U.S. national parkland located in Alaska, the issue of climate change is … Continue reading

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Arctic Ice Concentration Higher Than 15 Years Ago

http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/ Concentration is close to 100% across the entire Arctic Basin. With a strong La Nina in progress, this is going to be tough to melt.

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Quebec Is Now Part Of The Arctic

The Arctic Ice is preparing itself for a large reduction in sea ice area this summer. The summer of 2007 surprised climatologists when a summer low in ice area was set at about 3 million sqkm. To put that in … Continue reading

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Lisa Simpson : “There is no Springfield 50 years in the future! “

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqJXjo4-SRY] There is no Springfield 50 years in the future! With global warming trapping the CO2 inside our poisonous atmosphere, our super-heated oceans will rise, drowning our lowlands, leaving what’s left of humanity baking in desert that once fed the … Continue reading

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