http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/08/29/arctic-sea-ice-record-low-nsidc.html
It started looking like this was coming sometime in July.
The story is attracting massive commenting on CBC, running about 10-1 in favour of recognizing the role we humans play in global warming.
Very interesting info at the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Now they're saying in some circles that the hope of holding global temperature increase to two degrees (over what timeframe I forget) is basically slim to none.
Just the fact that the six last years are the six lowest Arctic ice years by a long shot is mind-blowing. For such an occurrence to be a random accident it would be like the same person winning the lottery six years in a row. For it to be something like "the end of the ice age" (or a "cycle") as some numbskulls propose, it would be like a mile-long freight train stopping on a dime and zipping into reverse as fast as the engineer could say "roger".
The alternative explanations are becoming downright farcical. Scarcely a snowflake of plausibility in the deniers' playbook now.
Article in the latest National Geographic going in depth into extreme weather phenomena.
Quite possibly before all is said and done, oil company execs and lobbiests may be held to account over all their lies, disinformation and misinformation, just as the tobacco industry has had to face a number of billion-dollar suits and payouts because of their lies.
I'm just afraid it will be too late.
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