West Antarctic glacier loss: 'We have passed the point of no return'

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | 05-12-2014 | Pete Spotts

[trisham]

We're doomed unless we stop all of this nonsense and take back control of the weather.

/s

[Responsibility2nd]

Seriously? These liars and con artists just won’t stop, will they?

[mountainlion]

Don’t they have record ice down there this year?

[Principled]

First, I think it’s all lies.
Second, how can anyone say it’s “irreversible”?
Third, why not just say we’ll all die tomorrow unless we are taxed at 99%?

[amnestynone]

I guess they will just have to learn how to breath under water.

[lacrew]

“We have passed the point of no return,”

Great. No we can quit worrying about ‘stopping’ it. Smoke em if you got em, fire up the generator, and lets carbon it up like its 1999!

[kaehurowing]

OMG, we’re all gonna die!

[Norm Lenhart]

Why wont anyone ever explain how record and growing levels of ice lead to less ice.

I just want that one thing addressed in public. Make the authors of studies predicting the opposite of observable reality show why observable reality is wrong and their imaginings are correct.

On Global warming, on Obamacare...all of it.

[lacrew]

The east shelf is setting records....left out of the article.

[trisham]

Do they?

[Luircin]

Irreversible? Awesome! Does that mean you’ll stop whining about it now since it’s a lot cause?

[lormand]

I wish we had the space age technology our ancestors had tens of thousands of years ago that allowed them to survive climate change.

[unixfox]

And in other news...

Antartic Sea Ice At All Time Record Levels

[BillT]

“five glaciers in West Antarctica are undergoing irreversible decline”

Yeah right....

I remember videos at the Mt Rainier Visitor Center showing over time how glaciers on one side of the mountain were shrinking while the glaciers on the other side were growing. Over time they all yoyoed up and down.

[Carl Vehse]

Send your refrigerator ice cubes and leftover drink-cup ice so that the Weathernazis can ship it to needy Antarctic penguins.

[cripplecreek]

Good. Getting rid of all that ice will make mining coal and drilling for oil and gas a whole lot easier.

[Calvin Locke]

Do you think we could get some of these expert brainiacs to modify Cheney’s Halliburton Hurricane Machine to work on polar ice?

[ully2]

So if it is irreversible why worry? Anyhow you have several hundred years to think about it.

[trisham]

It’s worth a try.