Ice-Free Summers Coming To Arctic

rocketjam writes "CNET reports that researchers from the University of Arizona and other universities have concluded that the Arctic will likely see ice-free summers within a century due to the increasing rate of global warming. The melting will raise ocean levels worldwide, flooding coastal areas where a substantial proportion of the world's population live. The increasing rate of ice melt is already having an impact on people and animals in the Arctic. Currently, researchers cannot foresee any natural forces that will counteract the trend."

Comments

Re:Global Warming

[maelstrom]

Maybe if you actually pointed us towards some peer reviewed research papers instead of saying, OMG TEH HURRICANE OMG WE GONNA DIE!

Cuz like, what you are spouting isn't science either my friend.

Re:Yeah, but

[Jim_Callahan]

The problem is that the defense of the global warming predictions generally isn't being done by scientists. It's being done by lobbyists. And the valid scientific work in this area is being swallowed up in the tide of politically motivated bullshit. And since the lobbyists in this area are occasionally actually educated and credentialed, the scientific community doesn't have the option of ignoring them (read: telling them to fuck off) and continuing their work as normal, as they do in the case of creationism nonsense.

Re:Que the global warming rants

[jez9999]

it's not going to happen in my lifetime, so who cares?
Warning: that's the kind of sentiment that generally gets you called an asshole, and I'll concur. You're an asshole.

What'd you think of them if your grandparents had cared so little about the future you were forced to grow up in an overheated world where people were dying en-masse from famine, etc?

Re:you got the facts wrong

[spun]

Moron. First sentence of the wiki page you link to: "The Arctic includes parts of Russia, Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Lapland, and Norway (including Svalbard), as well as the Arctic Ocean."