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."

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Not trolling, just having fun

[dauthur]

Hey, someone hand me my spray-paint can. I want to help speed up our continuing problem with pollution and mass-habitat destruction. Don't worry about plantlife or animals, they can all die out and we can continue using our greenhouses to grow what we need to eat. It's no big deal because we can just throw another barrel of oil under one of the Bushs' noses and they'll buy it.

At a rate like this, I think we should follow Iceland's lead in their aspiration for being the first modern country to be completely independant of oil. If we relied on synthetic lubricants, cleaner fuels (Like solar or hydrogen), then maybe we could extend that global warming to "never". This is all based on the asumption that we as humans don't populate Mars first. Excuse me.