Today's Carbon Fueling Sea Ice Loss for Next 50 Years
by David Sassoon - Sep 7th, 2007
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It's another report about sea ice loss, with news worse than ever before. But the really bad news is why: because of the carbon dioxide that has already been pumped into atmosphere.
The Arctic ice cap is melting faster than scientists had expected and will shrink 40 percent by 2050 in most regions, with grim consequences for polar bears, walruses and other marine animals, according to government researchers.
It may seem like this another story about the endangerment of charismatic mega-fauna -- aka cuddly polar bears. It's not.
It's about an environmental danger signal that we don't know how to listen to.
We tackeld litter in America's, didn't we? We finally decided to clean it up, and now it's largely gone. But imagine this. What if every piece of litter that ended up on the ground, could not be removed for 50 years or more?
That's what we are looking at with global warming pollution. Carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for 50 years or more.
That's why we're locked into sea ice loss now. What next?
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