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Major Arctic sea ice melt is expected this summer

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The Arctic will remain on thinning ice, and climate warming is expected to begin affecting the Antarctic also, scientists said Friday.

"The long-term prognosis is not very optimistic," atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University said at a briefing.

Last summer sea ice in the North shrank to a record low, a change many attribute to global warming.
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  • http://current.com/items/88931946_antarctic_and_arctic_...
    And it is being influenced by humans.
    JanforGore
  • There's quite a lot of blood in that picture...

    We really have to do something to help this species. On one end they are being threatened by grizzly bears heading north due to warming temperatures and on the other hand they are seeing their land retreat into the ocean. Soon they'll have little place to go, and we'll be to blame.
    NcSchu
  • I see it as a representation of the blood on our hands. The special interests and their minions in the media trying to make us believe that human induced climate change is now nothing to worry about are already out in full force.They are now telling us that "biofuels" are bad for the planet, and some like switchgrass even worse than gasoline. They are telling us that the Earth is going to cool in the next decade as if that is a good thing and just stop short of telling people it is because the ocean currents are slowing down due to climate change that is also causing glaciers to melt abnormally fast in the Arctic thus precipitating the current slowdown.

    Of course, it could be predicted.

    The war for resources has already begun. On one side are those who want to preseve them and find new ways to preserve them that will be safer, cleaner, and productive to sustain this planet for future generations... on the other, those who are too greedy, selfish, and confortable to think of anything but themselves and the politicians in their back pockets who go along with them for political ambition and profit.

    So that blood represents the lives of all species that will be forever changed by us allowing the latter group to have the upper hand. I surely hope that does not come to be.
    JanforGore
  • It's either polar bears adapt to the change. And evolve fast.

    Or I guess it's up to us.
    pogschampion
  • It was always up to us, and it still is. As wrong, impossible and twisted as this is, I'm hoping for a non-corrupt dictatorship. Then and again "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely".
    ipodrulz

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