Arctic Shelves Have Lost Half Their Size in Six Years

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OTTAWA — Canada’s Arctic ice shelves, formations that date back thousands of years, have been almost halved in size over the last six years, Canadian researchers said on Tuesday.

Researchers at Carleton University in Ottawa, who regularly analyze satellite images from the region, also found that a major portion of the ice shelves split in half this summer and other pieces covering an area roughly one and a half times that of Manhattan have broken off since the end of July.

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/arctic-shelves-have-lost-half-their-size-in-six-years/

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1. The point of no return

i'm afraid we may have passed it - due to greed, stupidity, and our short-sighted actions - but most of all due to capitalism, which only cares about the bottom line - not the environment. it didn't have to be this way. :(

[patrice]

2. I'm afraid there's a bunch of people expecting to buy their way out of this for themselves & theirs.

[stuntcat]

3. +1

I'm pretty sure of this.

[patrice]

4. It's part of what's driving this craziness about taxes & budget, they're hoarding AND they just

crashed their own "wealth" with their fucking derivatives and FOREIGN partnerships.

[patrice]

5. John Kerry was right about the biggest threat to national security being the environment