Oceans rising faster than expected as climate change exceeds grimmest models
Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.
As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice. Mountain glaciers in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa are shrinking faster than before.
And it's not just the frozen parts of the world that have felt the heat in the dozen years leading up to next month's climate summit in Copenhagen:
The world's oceans have risen by about an inch and a half.
Maybe we need to fudge further the science of climate change in order to finally manage to shape the reality that we want?
I suppose we'll finally accept the fact that we should've done done something about this catastrophe once we'll be several feet under water ...
(Cross-posted from APOV)