So we lost 270,000 square km of ice overnight

[XemaSab]

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/arctic.sea.ice.interactive.html

[Mnemosyne]

1. Not good. nt

[babylonsister]

2. Scary. nt

[Gregorian]

3. Where should I go for vacation. How dare you tell me I shouldn't travel. *

*I don't fucking travel for this very reason. And I am pissed off at gratuitous carbon emissions.

[raouldukelives]

17. Well, after putting in hard work for a corporation and supporting Wall St with investments

I guess its required for them to use that money to get away. Go somewhere nice, somewhere quiet and beautiful before all the other investors see to it that it is all ground up and turned into speculative paper so Jamie can buy a new super yacht.
When your life is nothing but being a footstool for the oligarchs, a little vacation can ease the personal distress that comes from reading headlines like this.

[Gregorian]

18. Right. When you're depressed, go melt an icecap.

When life sucks, go be irresponsible. Have few more children. Hop on a jet. Fuck the planet. Fuck the future generations who won't have the diversity or even stable weather conditions.

[tavalon]

4. And this is why all the other shit is just sound and fury, signifying nothing

We fucked ourselves and we are going to take most of the world's species with us. We're dead men walking. Gaia will be okay in the long run and that's just going to have to be good enough.

No, I'm not saying we shouldn't do everything in our power to lessen the impact, but it is too late to save the bald monkey. At least, that's what I think.

[joshcryer]

6. Pretty much.

Climate change is the single biggest threat to civilization beyond any other factor one can summon. Full stop.

[joshcryer]

5. Wow. Incredible nosedive.

[tavalon]

10. I'll admit I was selfishly hoping to miss the worst of it

But if I live a normal lifespan, I won't, heck, I'm not. I've never seen a Northwest summer like this. Blackberries ripen at my birthday. Clue, my birthday is a month away and I'm already popping berries. That part is nice, but not much else is. We are already in drought conditions. Yes, Seattle does experience drought.

[XemaSab]

7. And another 160K yesterday

A couple more days of this and we could catch up with 2007.

[NickB79]

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[GliderGuider]

16. Nice graphic. I can hear the fading scream...

[XemaSab]

8. DAAAAAAAAAAYUM! Since the first we've lost HELLA!

http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?fm=07&fd=01&fy=2013&sm=07&sd=18&sy=2013

[hatrack]

9. WASF

On the other hand, at least it's never dull!

[emmadoggy]

11. GULP. nt

[phantom power]

12. 1e5 km^2 here, 1e5 km^2 there, pretty soon you're talking abou real area

[NickB79]

13. Look on the bright side. We may have lost 270K of ice

But we GAINED 270,000 sq. miles of space to put up new oil derricks!

There, now don't you feel better?

[felix_numinous]

15. So far Al Gore has been right on

I remember the part about ice melting gradually until it hits critical mass and the rest of it goes all at once.

Don't worry about it, the 1% has the situation under control...metadata collection, more police, and GMO food to the rescue. I'm not worried at all.