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Disappearing Ice

by schmidt on February 26, 2009 · 0 comments

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There is a scarey story hitting the wires today about the rate at which the Antarctic Ice sheet is melting…one number really hit me hard…and I put in quotes

“The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group set up by the United Nations, told lawmakers on the Environment and Public Works Committee that Earth has about six more years at current rates of carbon dioxide pollutionbefore it is locked into a future of severe global warming.”

6 years.  Six.  I am sorry but there really isn’t time for fucking around anymore.  Take action.  Now.

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