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Help! We're melting!!!

The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.S. ice expert said on Tuesday.

We're all gonna ::YAWN:: die... or something. Panic, hysteria, cats & dogs, etc. Just windmill your arms and execute Doomsday Reactionary Protocol #3-A.

[Ice expert Ted Scambos] discounted the notion that the sharp warming trend in the Arctic might be due to natural climate cycles. "There aren't many periods in history that are this dramatic in terms of natural variability," Scambos said.

He said he had no doubt that this was caused in large part by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which he said was the only thing capable of changing Earth on such a large scale over so many latitudes.

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"We just barely now, I think, have enough time and enough collective will to be able to get through this century in good shape, but it means we have to start acting now and in a big way."

I do believe Mr. Scambos has absorbed and internalized the doctrine of the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming (Reformed). Give 'im another grant, Keeper of the Cash!

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(Hat-tip to Ricky W.)