Greenland Is Melting
Several fractures have appeared on the ice sheet. A large surface glacial lake can drain in less than two hours, pouring water down through a 980-meter-thick ice sheet at an average rate exceeding that of the flow at Niagara Falls. It was just reported on NPR and ABC news that the polar ice cap might be ice free by the end of summer for the first time in history. The original prediction was this wouldn't happen until around 2020. Yes Virginia (and President Bush), there is global warming...and we are in trouble if we continue to ignore it. The reflection of the sun off the snow and ice on the North Pole is the refrigeration system that adds cooling to the earth. Once that ice is gone, so is the cooling system. It's time to start thinking seriously about it folks.
(Science)
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The "what me worry" spokesman won reelection by courting the moneyed and the poor blissfully bigoted ingnoramus. Together they alternately decried and detoured institutions like the National Weather service and even the weather channel. Now we pay. Maybe sooner than the "experts" would have us to believe. Now it becomes immediate and personal fact.
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