Arctic ice no more by 2030

[Corey]

Bad news about Arctic Ice........

Ice-free Arctic could be here in 23 years | Environment | The Guardian

[sumanth]

it is too late to discuss on it the only thing left is the action.first we need to stop the production of automobiles which run by fossil fuels so that the situation will be in our hands.legal authorities are needed to be contacted for this issue so taht we can save our mother earth

[Johnny Electriglide]

It is fossil fuel use and really anything that produces CO2, from coal plants to cars, and fireplaces. From what I've heard, humanity has 9 years to drop CO2 production 70%, or worse than worse case scenarios will be unstoppable. The problem is that people have not taken measures to make an adequate effect on the acceleration. Global dimming from particulates of combustion hide much of the effect, while the fossil fuel industry wants to use it all up until there are inadequate profits. As the mathematically certain die-off occurs by 2048, finally the CO2 production also drops, but the particulates drop faster. The global heat rises dramatically, far beyond the adaptability rate of most species, as the ocean methane is released. People just don't comprehend the seriousness of taking radical action now. They use every excuse in the book, or just have a dumb look, or are still in denial. Even if the USA wised up and reduced CO2 production 70% with massive programs, and the breaking of the corporate/government complex-----who will stop China's massive increase in CO2 production? Are they wise enough to see that the very future existence of the human species is at stake?<rockon>

[Luc-talkclimatechange.com]

The European Space Agency reports that the Northwest Passage, the most direct shipping route from Europe to Asia, is fully clear from Ice for the first time since records began.

Article:- BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Warming 'opens Northwest Passage'

The melting sea ice in the Arctic is already causing land disputes due to its abundant oil an gas reserves. Although some may consider the melting of the sea ice beneficial in many ways, this is certainly another alarming milestone indicating the severity of global warming.

Luke
Talk Climate Change: Global Warming News & Discussion Forum

[sumanth]

to reduce the severity first we should mobilise the legal authorities about the degrading environment so that they can take any action .

[CapGhG]

Originally Posted by sumanth

to reduce the severity first we should mobilise the legal authorities about the degrading environment so that they can take any action .

Here in the USA all actions to reduce co2 is met with resistance by our Goofball President and his controlled republican senate. He continues to do nothing (or very little that amounts to nothing) to fight globalwarming even after his chief climate advisor has publically admitted he is convinced that man-made globalwarming is the main cause of our climate change and if not stopped soon will eventually destroy our one and only planet and all humanity along with it. Read this.. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Bush aide says warming man-made

To the rest of the world I can only say, the majority of the American people are fed up with Bush, especially with his stubborn policy on the Iraqi War and globalwarming. Most of us want him gone as quickly as possible.

[sumanth]

as the tonnes of methane are embeded under the icecaps, w were safe till today .but once if the icecaps melt then comes the danger.hoe about the trapping of the methane?

[Johnny Electriglide]

Bush and the rest of the special interest bought Congress (Democrat majority) are the worst in a long line of bought and stupid Presidents and Congresses. Starting with the BS of Ted kennedy and LBJ and the SS rape, reverse discrimination, third world immigration of low IQ overbreeders, and the "Great(welfare) Society". None have helped except Nixon addressing Congress twice on overpopulation with nothing done. Reagan on have all unConstitutionallly not enforced laws and stopped a de facto invasion and war in America itself. Even Gore could not convince Clinton to do more for our ecology.
The effort of his movie, researched before Russian scientists found the geometric rise of methane release, was admirable. However, it was 11 years after I wrote him a long letter on what had to be done immediately. Too little, too late--even with him. Now, humanity is lucky if it has 9 years to reduce CO2 emissions 70% to just mitigate the methane release and climate change to survivability, with extinction of ours and 87% of other species the alternative.

[CapGhG]

Its either personal greed for the almighty dollar or brain impairment that drives G. W. Bush. I don't know which but I personally think its a little of both, more of the first than the latter....maybe 60/40.

There is a lot of money, and I mean a LOT of money on the line for fossil fuels to continue its dominance. I just hope that one day the truth will be known.

[Johnny Electriglide]

I think GW is just a stooge of big oil. Others are stooges of the same and other corporate entities, and many are stooges of other special interest USA antagonistic organizations. The thing is, that they are blind to anything but their own lives and profits, without caring at all, or even really thinking logically, about their own grandkids' survival. They figure, "let them take care of themselves" or "technology will come to the rescue" or even "God will come and save them". They have been in the way of population reduction, reduction in all sorts of consumption, and really in the way of reduction in CO2 emissions. They are all so selfish and short sighted that they are sickening. The Ute Indians and many ancients had a lot more sense than the corporate moguls and politicians of today. The only one with a clue about overpopulation is Tom Tancredo. The only one with a clue on global warming is not running. In fact it is almost impossible to believe how clueless humanity in general is to ecology, carrying capacity, and morals for future generations.
What good is dying rich when your grandkids will die from what you did?