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For the climate change skeptics: this isn’t a bit of worst-case-scenario animation from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. It’s actual time-lapse photography taken by NASA that shows just what happened to the Arctic ice cap this summer.
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  • It is interesting to speculate that the melting of the Arctic Ice sheet will accelerate over the next few years. This I contribute to warm ocean currents more easily getting into the Arctic Circle. When ice more recently would pinch off the ocean currents between Russia and Alaska, as well as Canada, Greenland, and Northern Europe. The warmer ocean water sits on the top of the cold dense water and the increased surface area of warm water in contact with the shrinking ice sheet will encourage melting.
    The Arctic is a dry climate much of the Ice Cap originates as precipitation, ocean water does not begin to solidify until much cooler temperatures. The current trends are obviously going to create a significant change in the ecological, economic, and social situtation.
    It seems that climate change is occuring; the big question is what is going to happen. It is less of a lets stop it all together and more of a how can our stuborn first world countries adapt to the enevitable changes without lossing what has got us here in the first place.
    Just my two cents
    Aridocean
  • I can stop global warming and create an opportunity to stimulate the whole world economy at the same time.
    It is in a crisis like this that the whole world comes together as a whole planet . The magnitude of this project will require the resources of the world .
    I feel the gain far exceeds the cost , but it's not a cheap fix
    thanks,
    earl
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  • I disagree. We need to stop it all now, all together. We're driving / flying / manufacturing our way to Hell as we speak.

    Gore said himself, we should freeze all carbon emissions.
    (see his testimony to Congress 03.21.07)
    stephenthomson
  • I am not saying that we should not try to stop the accumilation of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. I am simply saying that to freeze all emissions in todays free world is nutz. Our presidency is the first clog in the process certainly the oil industry is going to get as much as they can out of our world before the new election.
    There are around 51 new coal power plants obtaining federal permits. Home Depots pledge to make their buildings more sustianable and reduce carbon dependancy, this action will be empty next to one week worth of one of these plants emissions..
    The things we must do; encourage developers to stop building new neighborhoods (and if they do make them with intelegence), encourage car companies to give us electric cars, and we must redistribute wealth so the collective can make the world how it should be (in 2004 1% of America held 35% of the wealth, the bottom 40% owned only 1%). We can intice congress people all that we want, but unless we provide viable alternatives there is will be no change.

    No new coal, no more big business arm wrestling, and a new ecologic economic system that includes all the parts is essential.
    Of course we need to stop climate change, the question is how?
    Aridocean

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