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The Arctic's 'last bastion' of sea ice is breaking up for the first time in millions of years
| But recent satellite imagery shows that some of the Arctic's oldest ice has been replaced by miles of open water for the first time on record, surprising scientists and ice monitors.
"This was the area that was seen as the last bastion, where we'd see these changes come last, but they've arrived," said Walt Meier, a senior research scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
How the breakup happened
| Sea ice off of northern Greenland is much thicker than elsewhere in the Arctic because, according to Meier, as ice drifts across the Arctic from Siberia, it is compacted against Greenland's rugged coast.
But this year has shown that even the densest sea ice is not impervious to high temperatures.
In late February and early March, summerlike heat and winds out of the south resulted in a similar ice breakup in the region.
| "This truly is the sign that earth will become another Venus, with a runaway greenhouse effect sooner than we thought."
Keld Qvistgaard, a senior ice adviser with the Greenland Ice Service, says it's possible that we have little more than 100 years before the planet becomes uninhabitable on the surface.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/23/world/arctic-sea-ice-breakup-greenland-trnd-wxc/index.html
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climt cheng is fake guis
| welp, our children gonna have some bad time I guess
| Waterworld here we come!
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dly4EW4NF9I&t=2572s
| I'd buy land in the north, but I don't have money to buy land. So I'll drown instead.
| Guys, we have to build a spaceship and fly to Mars. Just let's not ruin it too...
| Rich people why are you so evil? Why can't you just take a little less and preserve our planet?
| >Implying the middle class aren't just as bad.
| Guys why are you so upset by this...this planet is doomed no matter what already
| >>391972 No joke, that's the truth. Even if we manage to deal with climate change and the potential nuclear war, there's still the Yellowstone supervolcano ready to fuck us all over. Best bet is to move to Mars as fast as we can.
| >>391994 Lmao no. Burgers will be affected most no doubt, but you underestimate the pressure building up under it. The moment it erupts there's going to be another ice age. Plus, the eruption may be so powerful that the seismic waves will resonate and shake all of Earth, causing other volcanoes to simultaneously erupt together. So no, this isn't just an American problem.
| >>391938 >>392798 the middle class and poor are just thralls to the ruling class. If the ruling class made laws to protect the environment the lower castes would obey without question.
| >>392798
Ah yes, good old "Why don't the poor just buy a Prius?????????" argument. Kinda funny running into that one here.
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| The sea ice off the coast of northern Greenland is normally some of the thickest in the entire Arctic, with ridges of ice piled as high as 70 feet in some places.
And despite the rapid retreat of sea ice across the region due to climate change, this harsh corner of the globe was expected to be the last to retain year-round sea ice cover.