Antarctic Glacier Melts at Unprecedented Rate

Welcome the deluge people.

I've been to Antarctica and seen just how beautiful the continent is. When I hear about how humans are harming the last untouched place it makes me really depressed.

I have my bags in my trunk I have a bunch of them from traders joes, whole foods ect. It makes sence. Other countys that I have traveld to the women allways have a bag for their food.

Actually, it is too many selfish greedy humans that are the problem. Not all of us disrespect the planet. I live every day within my means and without excess waste. I teach my child to do the same. I get involved in activism, sign petitions, write letters, blog, call my reps, call the White House, write letters to my community, take part in activist activities to call on better stewardship, and then some greedy selfish politician who cares more for his poll numbers than the moral imperative chucks all of that work out of the window because not enough of us did the same. Even if the population of this planet were halved, I can believe we would still have the same situation because the same people would be in charge and giving it all away to the highest bidder while the people continued watching celebrity news and reality TV shows.

there's something to be said for the natural evolution of the species and this is how we do it , we made this , we are incontrol of it and fully aware of where its going. expand your scope. visualize, create. Don't get caught in the State of Fear.

Too many humans is the problem.

Do you mean wooly? Maybe if they had a wooly Al Gore then we wouldn't still be so careless today.

We should learn from the wolly mammoth. They polluted and left such a great carbon footprint it caused the last global warming.

Too bad they did not have a wolly al gore to "raise awarness" for them

We should learn from the wolly mammoth. They polluted and left such a great carbon footprint it caused the last global warming.

Too bad they did not have a wolly al gore to "raise awarness" for them

And yet, the current climate legislation in Congress does not adequately address Co2 and GHG targets in time to avoid a tipping point, and gets little to no discussion. And because it is the Obama administration, Democrats are now stalling and making excuses for this just like Republicans did with Bush, instead of looking beyond politics to tell them that this bill is inadequate and needs to be greatly strengthened to meet scientific standards.

And in reality, we will not make much if any progress on this even if this bill should be adequate regarding targets now as long as these politicians continue to support "clean" coal and other destructive environmental/ economic measures simply to not piss off their donors.

At this point we need moral awareness and a will by the population at large and political will that meets scientific standards working in tandem. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening at this point and truly believe glacier melt is already at the tipping point. So sad too. We have had so many chances and have blown every one of them, and it looks like we may blow this one too.

WE HAVE THE TECHNNOLOGY!! We just need a war to use it!!! Come on folks, it's gonna take death and destruction on a massive scale before we do shit about this. I just hope my seat won't get burned in the forest fires, and napalm blasts.

Whats interesting is that every response here does not adress a problem that has grown faster and larger than all the scientist and climatologist thought. There are still people out here saying this melting and the speed of its melting is a natural cycle. It is not. You people had better start e mailing your United States Senators and Congressmen and women to act of global climate change and clean fuel technology now, not tomorrow or next year but now. The point of no return from there will be no turning back what the forces of nature set in motion is a point that no person knows with certainty when it will be but what is for sure it will be coming faster than previously thought and without action starting now it will come very soon, within the next ten to fifteen years if one applies the speed in the acceleration of global melt to coinside with a point of no return. Einstien said it, for every action the is an equal and opposite reaction, well its right in front of you.
tom mcmahon
millis ma

I guess they will have to have something like a dredge to gather it up. I hope they do. Why in the world do they dump garbage in the ocean? I'd like to see some reform in packaging. Everything we buy is over packaged.

There is a ship on the way to that island of plastic, Marilynn, and they should be giving us some info about it later this year. It is up to 30 feet thick and twice the size of Texas. They're talking about scooping the stuff up and bringing it back to recycle. I imagine the sorting process would be horrific, what with the rotted stuff floating along with the plastic.

HEAD 4 DA HILLS PEOPLE !!!

Okay everyone what do you do with your plastic bags? Do you know there is a huge mass of plastic bags swirling around in the ocean. They say it is the size of Texas. Make sure your supermarket recycles them.

I already do my part and more! My neighbors think I am crazy because I have 2 green recycle cans and they don't even use theres they say the waste managment makes money from it "more power to them" We need to start to think about what is happening.

You could have a plumber type place a tap on the line to get you the hot water in the sink also. You likely don't use both at the same time. Unless you're really really fast.

The heated water coming out of the hot water heater is still hot so what you're doing is heating the ground. It's possible the tap is already there, just closed. I hope you get it looked at.

We have something like that under the kitchen sink. It has no effect on the kitchen water but I can fill my huge spa bath tub with no problem? There is something wrong somewhere but I don't care I don't have to wait for bath water.

In that case you might want to get an inline "tankless water heater", place it where the hot water pipe enters the house, and then you can turn down the water heater element thermostat to 60 or 70 degrees. Heater would run a great deal less. Get the tankless large enough you could turn the water heater completely off til it got wintertime, then the two could augment each other. It just depends on how much hot water you use.

I've thought of that. It is in the garage well away from the kitchen and you have to waste a lot of water to get hot. Its an irritation. Thanks.

I have a suggestion for you then. Putting your hot water heater up in the attic might save you another $40 a month.

We as individuals need to start taking this seriously. There are many things we can be doing. If you have a gas hog car look into the cash for clunkers. Plant deciduas trees round your house. Shade in the summer can really cut your cooling bills. When they lose their leaves in the winter you will get some solar heat from the sun. If you haven't added more insulation in your attic, do it. We live in Texas and the weather is miserably hot. My electric bill was 153.00 last month. Before our trees got big our bill was around 400.00 in the summer months. It isn't hard to do or expensive.

I'm sorry man. I just you know after listening to them other fellas go on & on & on about IQ I just felt compelled to unleash. The prospect of having such a grand opportunity to SHOW OFF made me jump up and down. I couldn't contain myself, much like my belt.

It's a curse but somebody has ta carry it.

Actually, about a year or so ago maybe two now I was working one night on the computer when suddenly I wavered side to side in my seat, from east to west. The next morning I found out an earthquake had hit Reno Nevada. So I kind of figured that an Atlantic Ocean wave had hit the eastern seaboard hard enough to send a rolling ground wave through here in VA headed for Reno. So we have more to be concerned about than simple rising water levels. More water will mean even stronger slammings against the continents. That energy goes through the ground til it reaches a weak spot, a lot like how Van Damme hit the bricks.

Absolutely brilliant, Gravity Man. But please stop jumping up and down; you're making the water in my toilet slosh back and forth.

What now? Whew. What now is when I decide to crank up the heat and show off my awesome IQ. Ready? Answer => the reason the cap ice is melting is because we fatties gained so much weight we depressed the continents, which pushed the caps up closer to the sun.

Why worry we will all be dead when the floods and drought gets really bad. Unless it keeps speeding up. Damn, now what?

Four times faster doesn't sound so bad. If it said 400% faster that would be scary but, thank goodness that isn't what it said.

Don't worry folks. It will be natural climate change until the very end, and you won't even have to feel responsible. //end sarcasm

Please wake up people. We have to take drastic measures to make up for 2 centuries of damaging our planet. We have the technology. What's lacking is political will. Tell your representative. Get involved.