Antarctica Is Melting More Than Twice as Fast as in 2012

[88m3]

Between 60 and 90 percent of the world’s fresh water is frozen in the ice sheets of Antarctica, a continent roughly the size of the United States and Mexico combined. If all that ice melted, it would be enough to raise the world’s sea levels by roughly 200 feet.

While that won’t happen overnight, Antarctica is indeed melting, and a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature shows that the melting is speeding up.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/...melting-faster.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Make Antartica Great Again

 

[Supercoolmayo]

Trump said the ice caps were rising!

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Yup

We done fukced the sky and the ocean up

 

[Cynic]

And ?

 

[88m3]

And ?

???

 

[Cynic]

???

Nobody cares breh...change is inevitable

 

[Shogun]

I'm pretty inept when it comes to science, so be easy...

With things changing at such a rapid rate would any measure in the past...say...20 years even have done anything?

 

[OneManGang]

I'm pretty inept when it comes to science, so be easy...

With things changing at such a rapid rate would any measure in the past...say...20 years even have done anything?

Probably not. Im not going to pretend to be an expert in climate science and the environment, but it's going to take a ridiculous natural disaster or rising oceans to make people really want to change they way we're going and by then it'll be too late.

 

[88m3]

Probably not. Im not going to pretend to be an expert in climate science and the environment, but it's going to take a ridiculous natural disaster or rising oceans to make people really want to change they way we're going and by then it'll be too late.

Weather events are getting worse

 

[OneManGang]

Weather events are getting worse

It's going to have be something people can't ignore though. Imagine your favorite beach town or something just fully submerged over time

 

[the cac mamba]

this isnt in the bible

 

[koolkeef]

I'm pretty inept when it comes to science, so be easy...

With things changing at such a rapid rate would any measure in the past...say...20 years even have done anything?

We've been making a huge impact on the ecosystem since the dawn of the industrial age, so I don't think anyone should expect 20 years of doing shyt the right way to reverse 150 years of damage. At best, knowing what we knew even back in 1998, we could've done a lot of shyt to slow it down by a good amount. Just off the top of my head -

• Stop pretending that coal is or could be considered a 'clean' energy source by any measure and usher that industry on towards a worthy death.
• Restrict/ban the use of heavy fuel oil in tanker and cargo ships.
• More aggressive adoption of wind, solar, other clean energy sources.
• More aggressive fuel economy/emission standards.
• Stop subsidizing cheap beef & pork. Factory style farming of meat has a HUGE impact.
• Build/renovate houses, offices with better insulation.
• Kill the culture of the the perfectly manicured suburban lawn.
• Or just plain ol' fukkin enforce the existing environmental protection laws at bare minimum.

A few huge and a million little things can be done to set shyt right. But no matter what we do now, its gonna get worse before it gets better.

 

[Jack Trippa 3z company ho]

Climate change

Dumbass liberals think anyone believes them about this retarded bullshyt

 

[fact]

Who cares, Al Gore has a really high electric bill, and stuff, and if the water level is rising, it’s because of libtard tears YESSSSSS *high fives A white supremacist*

 

[ElMorenoFeo809]

damn i feel bad for my penguin brehs.