Unsurprisingly, Utter Silence From Shitstain On Warming; House Climate Hearings Start Today
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On top of the extreme weather, two staggering new studies added to the sense of impending doom. Researchers discovered an “enormous void” under a major Antarctic glacier, a hole amounting to some 14 billion tons of ice that have disappeared within the past three years.
Experts now fear that the melting of Antarctic ice is occurring at a scale and pace previously not imagined. If this particular glacier collapses — something that could happen anywhere between 50 and 100 years from now — sea levels would rise by about two feet across the globe. That’s enough to radically affect life in myriad coastal towns and cities.
A separate study involving more than 350 scientists and policymakers from 22 countries estimated that at least a third of the huge ice fields in the Himalayan and Hindu Kush mountain ranges will be gone by the end of this century — and that’s even if the most ambitious emissions targets are met by countries around the world. The Asian mountain ranges’ vast glaciers have been known as the “Third Pole” and are the major source of drinking water for close to 2 billion people.
“This is the climate crisis you haven’t heard of,” Philippus Wester, a water and climate scientist at the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, said in a statement. “Global warming is on track to transform the frigid, glacier-covered mountain peaks … to bare rocks in a little less than a century.” For Trump, that may be a timeline of no consequence to his political career. But his inaction and indifference is already part of a broader political legacy likely to be remembered in decades to come.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/06/glaring-hole-trumps-address-climate-change/?utm_term=.f6c2357be299
