Antarctic Glaciers Melting ‘Passed Point of No Return’
14th May 2014
“It really is an amazingly distressing situation,” says Pennsylvania State University glaciologist Sridhar Anandakrishnan, who was not affiliated with either study. “This is a huge part of West Antarctica, and it seems to have been kicked over the edge.”
The researchers say the fate of the glaciers is almost certainly beyond hope.
Remember this when it a couple of years they come back and say ‘Oops! Never mind!’
May 14th, 2014 at 10:13
They will never say, “Oops! Never mind!”
As evidence I present you with the history of the infamous Ozone Hole. In the 1980’s, we were all going to die because of the increasing size of the hole. Massive amounts of pseudo-research indicated (“by concensus”) that Freon was causing the problem. The resulting Title 6 of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments cost American consumers billion$ and resulted in all sorts of problems for folks with asthma (inhalers used Freon) and fire control (Halon) and air conditioning systems, etc. Twenty four years later, the Ozone Hole still exists, nobody really knows how or why it grows and shrinks, chlorofluourocarbons are still banned, and we are all still waiting for that damned apology.
May 17th, 2014 at 14:01
Of course the fate of the glaciers is “beyond hope” – at least until the Next Ice Age that they were shrieking about during the 70s comes along.