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How Long Until We Put On The Brakes?

A pervasive sense up to now has been that climate change is distant — distant in time, and distant in space. And what we’re now beginning to see is that it’s not so distant. It’s not just future generations. It’s us and it’s our own children! More…

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Greenland's sudden loss over four days of nearly all of its terrestrial ice are evident in this satellite composite from NASA.  Credit: Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, SSAI/NASA GSFC, and Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory

Greenland Loses All of Its Ice in Sudden Four-Day Thaw

NASA’s shocking press release regarding Greenland’s near-complete ice loss comes as a severe blow to the world, and for some this seems to provide new meaning to the concept of “global warming.” Greenland, that massive arctic island we commonly envision as a land of permanent ice and cold, typically loses only 50% of its ice during the summer months. However, during a mere four-day period, Greenland has lost virtually all of its ice. More…