Dread Pirate Alice

The terror continues…

It’s a problem now, new study concludes

Melting sea ice and thawing permafrost is rapidly altering the Arctic environment. The changes could drive seals, polar bears and other animals toward extinction, said the report issued yesterday.

“It’s happening very fast, and . . . it’s fairly convincing that on the scale of our lifetimes very dramatic things will be happening.”

Arctic heating up fast

The biggest survey to date of the Arctic climate, by 250 scientists, said the accelerating melt could be a foretaste of wider disruptions from a build-up in the atmosphere of human emissions of heat-trapping gases.

The End is Near!

Arctic meltdown gathers speed

OSLO (Reuters) – Global warming is heating the Arctic almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that threatens millions of

livelihoods and could wipe out polar bears by 2100, an eight-nation report says.