If we cross the melting Arctic tipping point, then we are basically farked.
We have passed the tipping point 10 years ahead of schedule.
Therefore, we are farked, the children really farked, and, if there is anything left in the Treasury, we ought to build a porcelain Bush memorial for the grandkids.
This blog has oft repeated the first part of the above syllogism, most recently for the benefit of the Republican vice president candidate. I don’t think she saw it. At least, she didn’t comment on it.
Perhaps, my albedo warning was screened by her beauty consultant. Don’t want to cause unneccessary worry lines, donnchakno. And, she probably did not get the really worrisome word from Professor Romm, i.e., the tundra feedback, coupled with the climate-carbon-cycle feedbacks that the IPCC models, could easily take us to the unmitigated catastrophe of 1000 ppm. Bottom Line: we lose a livable climate.
While this blog previously has elaborated upon the second part of the syllogism, the conclusion — the Arctic is melting faster than the doomsday scenarios — became even more evident with recent, ominous news from NSIDC (National Snow and Ice Data Center). NSIDC scientists have found the first unequivocal evidence the Arctic region is warming at a faster rate than the rest of the world. They found evidence at least a decade before climate models predicted that such a phenomenon would occur.
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