In 2014 Antarctic sea ice reached a record maximum:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reach...
But now in 2017 we're talking about continent-wide collapse?
Antarctica Is Melting, and Giant Ice Cracks Are Just the Start
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#12Trump is President. Amazon buying Whole Foods. Antartica is melting. London Burning. Corals dying. Bees dying. North Korea. Putin. Etc. WTF is going on... Elect Elon Musk as President in 2020 and let's all go to Mars (Not!) So many assholes in charge. And the people of this planet are in diametric opposition to each other. Feel free to down vote this on the basis that it is absolutely and utterly useless to state all…
Don't forget Australia and Canada. Both massive co2 polluters per capita (even worse than the US):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...
I have noticed a pattern. Anglo-saxon countries are killing us. Unfortunately they are also the primary users of this platform, so good luck seeing this message!
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#13How many times have we heard this story before?
Amusingly, this comment could be taken as an argument both for and against this story.
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#14I just came back from 7 months on one of the U.S. research stations, doing network engineering and glacier search and rescue. It was pretty interesting to see how fast the glacier face the station was near was retreating each year. edit: did an AMA while there that hit the reddit front page https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5656e1/iama_i_dont_ha...
Is Antarctica melting? Yes.
Is it bad? Yes.
Are humans accelerating it? Yes.
Is it bad for my kids and future generations? Yes.
Does that mean I'm going to switch to an EV, start taking public transportation in Mountain View, or stop using disposable bags at While Foods? No.
Scientists have a long way to convince the billions of people on Earth like me before anyone is going to meaningfully reduce climate change.
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#15The greed of those already dead will kill us all.
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#16We should start angling for the contracts to build the seawalls that big cities are going to need over the next 50 years.
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#17In 2014 Antarctic sea ice reached a record maximum: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reach... But now in 2017 we're talking about continent-wide collapse?
Sea ice comes and goes. Land ice is much more important. There is an acceleration on land ice loss.
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#18Trump is President. Amazon buying Whole Foods. Antartica is melting. London Burning. Corals dying. Bees dying. North Korea. Putin. Etc. WTF is going on... Elect Elon Musk as President in 2020 and let's all go to Mars (Not!) So many assholes in charge. And the people of this planet are in diametric opposition to each other. Feel free to down vote this on the basis that it is absolutely and utterly useless to state all…
Those are all just headlines. In reality the world is getting better (for humans).
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#19In 2014 Antarctic sea ice reached a record maximum: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reach... But now in 2017 we're talking about continent-wide collapse?
That's a record extent, not a record volume. Volume is how much ice there is. Extent without volume means the ice is more spread out, i.e. thinner.
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#20Trump is President. Amazon buying Whole Foods. Antartica is melting. London Burning. Corals dying. Bees dying. North Korea. Putin. Etc. WTF is going on... Elect Elon Musk as President in 2020 and let's all go to Mars (Not!) So many assholes in charge. And the people of this planet are in diametric opposition to each other. Feel free to down vote this on the basis that it is absolutely and utterly useless to state all…
I'm no historian but isn't the sky always falling according to some highly respected sources?
I mean, yeah, let's always work towards fixing problems but is the end really near?
Edit: I'm unsure why the parent comment is now flagged.