A new study finds that the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the Earth—and that as a result, past predictions of sea level rise during this century may need to be revised substantially upwards.
The findings come from the Snow, Water, Ice, and Permafrost in the Arctic report, a comprehensive assessment compiled every few years by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, the scientific body that reports to the governments that make up the Arctic Council, a forum for issues affecting the region. The last assessment came out in 2011.
“The take-home message is that the Arctic is unravelling,” says Rafe Pomerance, who chairs a network of conservation groups called Arctic 21 and was a deputy assistant secretary of state for environment and development under US President Bill Clinton. “The fate of the Arctic has to be moved out of the world of scientific observation and into the world of government policy.”
Under the new calculations, mean sea level rise by the end of 2099 will be “about double” the estimates released in 2013 by the IPCC.
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2013—Inhofe says Obama ordering Feds to buy up all ammo so gun owners won't have any.
All right, let's review. James Inhofe (R-NotOK,NotByAStretch), actual United States senator, says that President Black Guy is behind a secret effort to buy up all the ammunition in America so that God-fearing patriots can't get any, thus rendering their mighty guns and gun-related Constitutional rights useless.
This is the guy whose various other holds and pronouncements and good-old-fashioned tantrums have been instrumental in causing the Senate to become the dull, incompetent wreck it is today. He's one of their big names, and he's proposing new laws based on things he read in the pamphlets men in strange hats sell inside this nation's lesser gun shows.
To repeat: The modern Republican Party is nothing more than a cult.