Arctic ice seen melting faster than anticipated - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL2376883720080424">Arctic ice seen melting faster than anticipated
Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:16pm EDT

By Laura MacInnis

GENEVA (Reuters) - Arctic ice may be melting faster than
most climate change science has concluded, the conservation
group WWF said in a report published on Thursday.

It found that ice in Greenland and across the Arctic region
was retreating "at rates significantly faster than predicted
in previous expert assessments".

The Greenland Ice Sheet -- with an ice volume of about 2.9
million cubic kilometers -- is shrinking at a fast pace and
"could contribute much more than previously estimated to
global sea-level rise during the 21st century," the WWF said.

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Many climate change scientists have inadequately considered
the drivers of such trends, such as interactions between sea
ice thickness and water temperature, according to WWF.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL2376883720080424

[NMDemDist2]

1. ok everybody, all together now

"FASTER THAN EXPECTED"

sigh

:banghead:

[Viking12]

2. Ahhh, this one doesn't really count; we've heard it a number of times already

[hatrack]

3. Indeed!

Our anticipation of "faster than expected" was "faster than expected", if I may make so bold . . .

[tavalon]

6. Yeah, the fact that global warming is happening and we're the biggest cause is just that, a fact

How fast it's going to go is rapidly showing itself to be anybodies guess. That really sucks. We don't even have a clear picture of when we will (or have) hit a non reversible "tipping point". In some of my darker moments, I muse that a number of those points are come and long past.

[OKthatsIT]

4. Bush and Putin racing to place their flags

make their claims$$$. Both countries have huge weather modification programs. Melting ice is a very easy and simple process..if you want it bad enough.

[progressoid]

5. Bah. Glenn Beck told me it's all a bunch of hooey.

I'm buying a big f****in SUV tomorrow and cutting down my trees.


edit: K/R