Alaskan glaciers melting 100 times faster than previously thought
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Alaskan glaciers melting 100 times faster than previously thought
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#2Welp. Pack it in boys, it's all over.
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#3Time to move to Nepal.
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#4The Bering Strait has already completely melted and because of this native tribes can no longer cross as they had for generations
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#5>“These glaciers aren’t getting lost that fast…they’ll be around for decades to come,” says Sutherland.
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#6Apocalypse now coming in 6 instead of 12 years - what will we do now?!
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#7It would be a lie if I said I was surprised, currently I hear news from everywhere that climate change is moving faster forward than expected. The time window we have left to rescue what is left is shrinking. This worries me a lot.
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#8On a more positive note, Glacier National Park removed its "gone by 2020" sign, and it looks like in fact the glaciers will still be there next year.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/07/national-park-glacier-war...
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#9I know these stories are intended to panic us into action, but when I read that people were wrong by a factor of 100 it just makes me think they don't know what they are talking about.
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#10"They’ve really discovered that the melt that’s happening is fairly dramatically different from some of the assumptions we’ve had"
Wait, you mean you actually have to validate assumptions against actual measurement to make accurate conclusions? Who knew?