Arctic ice cap melting at worrying rate: NASA

[underpants]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/us_environment_climate

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The polar ice cap is melting at an alarming rate due to global warming (news - web sites), according to NASA (news - web sites) scientists, with satellite images showing the ice cap has been shrinking by 10 percent per decade over the past quarter century.

"It is happening now. We cannot afford to wait a long period of time for technological solutions," said David Rind of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

"Change is in the air -- literally," he told a press conference here Thursday.

"Why the increase in global temperature?" he asked.


"Part of this is probably simply due to natural variability in the climate system," he added. "But the general consensus of the climate community is that part these changes are due to human impact."

[La_Serpiente]

1. Hmmm

If Bush cares about Electoral votes (i.e. Florida, Louisiana) he better stop polluting the environment.

[section321]

3. Naw, the fundies always say "There's no proof for global warming"

Idiots!

[underpants]

5. As Falwell said"global warming doesn't exist because if it did....

it would mean God was wrong" See there it's settled.

[Minstrel Boy]

2. As Dan Rather would say,

it's a mystery.

:crazy:

[bleedingheart]

4. so where will the new coast liines be....

[donsu]

6. the change won't just be rising water

everything is relative. changes will be profound and irreversible.