Arctic cap on course for record melt

World Aug. 22, 2012 - 08:20AM JST ( 12 )

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gogogoAug. 22, 2012 - 09:37AM JST

Same story every year... it's summer people!
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YuriOtaniAug. 22, 2012 - 10:00AM JST

gogogo think it has to do with the icecap melting more than usual. It sure has been hot here in Oklahoma USA and there is the drought in the US as well. Last winter was mild, did not know why I closed the pool. I was swimming in it again in early March. No the Earth is warming up and burning fossil fuels is behind it.
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TumbleDryAug. 22, 2012 - 10:41AM JST

Yuri: there is way more than burning fossil fuel.
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WolfpackAug. 22, 2012 - 10:52AM JST

OMG - the climate on planet Earth is variable! We have angered Mother Earth - we must all quite our modern lifestyle and return to the caves where the great god intended us to live and return the globe to it's naturally unvarying climatic state. Or we could just hurl a scaremongering journalist into a volcano and hope that does the trick.
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FarmboyAug. 22, 2012 - 11:01AM JST

Or we could just hurl a scaremongering journalist into a volcano and hope that does the trick.

That's already been done, with no appreciable effect.
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WakarimasenAug. 22, 2012 - 02:29PM JST

wow. this heatwave goes a long way North.
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FarmboyAug. 22, 2012 - 02:34PM JST

The compromise that everyone can live with: governments will stop using fossil fuels and will start providing free beer.
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YGHome3Aug. 22, 2012 - 05:08PM JST

The denial of the catastrophe and the frivolous attitude are irrational.
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edojinAug. 22, 2012 - 06:30PM JST

Glad I don't live along the coastline ... water's gonna get rather deep there someday down the road ...
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YuriOtaniAug. 23, 2012 - 12:34AM JST

In America the coal plants are releasing more radiation and mercury to poison the air and soil. The US courts have blocked the downwind states from doing anything. All of this plus global warming, will 30 plus in winter and 40 plus for summer become the new "normal"?
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globalwatcherAug. 23, 2012 - 02:08AM JST

Unfortunately, this climate change will lead us into global shortage of food supply and outbreak of new desease. I am very concerned about this. No joke here..
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FarmboyAug. 23, 2012 - 07:41AM JST

Glad I don't live along the coastline ... water's gonna get rather deep there someday down the road ...

It does seem like water is going to be the problem, one way or another. I'd think about some nice inland Florida home, but then you'd have to deal with airplane-size mosquitoes, alligators, and Burmese pythons. Where is paradise going to be located in 15-20 years, I wonder?