Icecap Melting Occurring at Alarming Rate
For scientists, global warming is a disaster movie, its opening scenes set at the poles of Earth. The epic already has started. And it’s not fiction.
The scenes are playing, at the start, in slow motion: The relentless grip of the Arctic Ocean that defied man for centuries is melting away. The sea ice reaches only half as far as it did 50 years ago. In the summer of 2006, it shrank to a record low; this summer the ice pulled back even more, by an area nearly the size of Alaska. Where explorer Robert Peary just 102 years ago saw “a great white disk stretching away apparently infinitely” from Ellesmere Island, there is often nothing now but open water. Glaciers race into the sea from the island of Greenland, beginning an inevitable rise in the oceans….
…The part that I find so unbelievable is the majority of people seem content to argue whether or not the global warming affects are being caused by humans.
 This is a moot question, and not one worthy of your time.
What should be obvious is that human activity, even if not directly responsible, is not helping the situation. And that situation is progressively becoming more and more alarming.
 So, the question should not be “Is it our fault?”, but rather “What can we do to minimize the damage?”
 Make no mistake, the damage will happen, and it is 100% up to us to decide how bad it will be.
If you must argue, argue about that.