For my early bird readers or those who subscribe to the Washington Post, here
is a scary read:
Greenland’s glaciers are melting into the sea twice as fast as previously
believed, the result of a warming trend that renders obsolete predictions of
how quickly Earth’s oceans will rise over the next century, scientists said
yesterday.The new data come from satellite imagery and give fresh urgency to
worries about the role of human activity in global warming. The Greenland
data are mirrored by findings from Bolivia to the Himalayas, scientists
said, noting that rising sea levels threaten widespread flooding and severe
storm damage in low-lying areas worldwide.The scientists said they do not yet understand the precise mechanism
causing glaciers to flow and melt more rapidly, but they said the changes in
Greenland were unambiguous — and accelerating: In 1996, the amount of water
produced by melting ice in Greenland was about 90 times the amount consumed
by Los Angeles in a year. Last year, the melted ice amounted to 225 times
the volume of water that city uses annually.“We are witnessing enormous changes, and it will take some time before we
understand how it happened, although it is clearly a result of warming
around the glaciers,” said Eric Rignot, a scientist at the California
Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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So I was sitting here reading this while we were having thunderstorms, high
winds and temperatures in the min 60’s. The bad part is that is here in
southwest Ohio where we should be looking at snow. The climate is royally
screwed up. Reading this article gave me that eerie sense of dejavu as I thought
back to the movie Day After Tomorrow. Ignorance is not going to save our planet
and that is all our leaders have right now. We got to do something to help
mother nature repair herself.