Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

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13. The Arctic will be ice-free within 8 years, maximum

This year is looking to be a new record low for ice volume and extent. And when the Arctic melts away entirely, the methane frozen in the tundra, billions of tons of it, will begin to percolate out. Well, more than it already is, since they've found lakes BUBBLING with escaping methane already in Siberia and Canada.

And when all that methane, which is 20X as powerful a greenhouse gas as CO2, hits the atmosphere, it will create a positive feedback loop from which no amount of fossil fuel cutbacks or geoengineering (short of a nuclear-war induced nuclear winter) could stop.

So no, there really is nothing left we can do at this point to stop global warming from becoming an unprecedented disaster. All we can do is prepare as best we can and hope for the best.