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Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
Fri May 5, 2017, 11:53 AM May 2017

Major Report: the Arctic Is Unraveling

...and still republicans persist in their systematic, corporate-funded lies about climate change. They are stripping America and the world of all creative initiatives to deal with this, and instead liberating and empowering republican-minded corporations to continue to despoil our air, land and water - and to hasten this comprehensive global disaster. If Jesus were around, he would totally kick idiotic, greedy, anti-life & anti-common sense republican ass.

From Scientific American: April 28, 2017

:The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet, suggests a huge assessment of the region. The warming is hastening the melting of Arctic ice and boosting sea-level rise.

"The report, compiled by more than 90 scientists, documents the myriad changes already under way across the Arctic because of climate change—from declining sea ice and melting glaciers to shifting ecosystems and weather patterns. From 2011 to 2015, the assessment finds, the Arctic was warmer than at any time since records began around 1900...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/major-report-prompts-warnings-that-the-arctic-is-unraveling1/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_ENGYSUS_NEWS

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Major Report: the Arctic Is Unraveling (Original Post) Achilleaze May 2017 OP
Something else equally terrifying: Sticky May 2017 #1
I heard about this years ago. MoonRiver May 2017 #2
Sadly... 2naSalit May 2017 #3
Sad thing is we'll take every sentient being down with us. MoonRiver May 2017 #7
Yup... 2naSalit May 2017 #8
I hope it happens after my life ends. But who knows, things are moving at warp speed. MoonRiver May 2017 #9
I feel the same way...nt 2naSalit May 2017 #10
I want to live long enough to see every motherfucker who voted for Bush and KingCharlemagne May 2017 #12
Well, yeah... MoonRiver May 2017 #14
Fake News. Chinese Hoax. SDJay May 2017 #4
Finally they will have Henry Hudson's Northwest Passage DefenseLawyer May 2017 #5
My 3rd-floor condo will become beachfront property. I too can then profit KingCharlemagne May 2017 #13
Already happened. That passage is melted open already Achilleaze May 2017 #15
oh goodie. easier to drill baby drill. mopinko May 2017 #6
Republicans believe in neither science nor the intellect. - nt KingCharlemagne May 2017 #11

Sticky

(1,406 posts)
1. Something else equally terrifying:
Fri May 5, 2017, 12:03 PM
May 2017

"Climate change is melting permafrost soils that have been frozen for thousands of years, and as the soils melt they are releasing ancient viruses and bacteria that, having lain dormant, are springing back to life."

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
2. I heard about this years ago.
Fri May 5, 2017, 12:09 PM
May 2017

Stupid humans are apparently down with the total extinction of our species.

2naSalit

(86,056 posts)
3. Sadly...
Fri May 5, 2017, 12:12 PM
May 2017

we deserve to be eliminated by the planet after all the damage we've done in the last two centuries.

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
7. Sad thing is we'll take every sentient being down with us.
Sat May 6, 2017, 08:55 AM
May 2017

Cockroaches and micro-organisms with survive. Guess that's the point at which conscious life will begin, again.

2naSalit

(86,056 posts)
8. Yup...
Sat May 6, 2017, 10:04 AM
May 2017

as an ESA specialist, I am painfully aware of that fact and several others that are equally as horrid.

 

KingCharlemagne

(7,908 posts)
12. I want to live long enough to see every motherfucker who voted for Bush and
Sat May 6, 2017, 10:19 AM
May 2017

Trump suffer excruiatingly. My own suffering will be made more bearable watching those bastards suffer.

SDJay

(1,089 posts)
4. Fake News. Chinese Hoax.
Fri May 5, 2017, 12:14 PM
May 2017

Jebus will protect us. Or somesuch.

Another example of how sickening it is to watch scum lie to rubes and have it actually affect policy that could kill us all if it isn't handled the right way.

 

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)
5. Finally they will have Henry Hudson's Northwest Passage
Fri May 5, 2017, 12:14 PM
May 2017

Just think of the profits to be made in the spice trade by the Dutch East India Company.

 

KingCharlemagne

(7,908 posts)
13. My 3rd-floor condo will become beachfront property. I too can then profit
Sat May 6, 2017, 10:20 AM
May 2017

from real estate and become a Republican shithead.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
15. Already happened. That passage is melted open already
Sat May 6, 2017, 10:33 AM
May 2017
Sails on the horizon in the Northwest Passage as tall ship plans summer voyage


"The first tall ship in more than 100 years will sail through the Northwest Passage this summer (2017), according to voyage organizers..."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/tall-ship-northwest-passage-1.4083732

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