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Will the Arctic Be Ice-Free Within the Next Two Decades?
 David Appell, Yale Climate Connections, is asking the question - Will the Arctic Be Ice-Free Within the Next Two Decades? When white sea ice melts, the ocean loses its reflective surface and the darker water absorbs more heat from the sun. Kristina Pistone of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center says, "melting Arctic sea ice is not only a symptom of global warming, it's also an important contributor because of the albedo effect." So - when Arctic sea ice melts, the underlying ocean water absorbs more of the sun's heat and warms up. Than, that, melts more sea ice, producing the dreaded "positive feedback" effect that's only "positive" in that it generates more heat. Since 1979, over 600,000 square miles of winter sea ice have disappeared-an area larger than twice the size of Texas. Pistone said that rate of loss could lead to ice-free summers in the Arctic within the next two decades. This will be disastrous for local ecosystems, accelerate global warming and affect weather patterns worldwide. -Thom (What do you think? Tell us here.) |
Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... What To Do In A World Crisis... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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- Crystal Wright, Con Job: How the Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering and Racial Division/Conservative Black Chick/RT America 
- Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)
- Charles Sauer, The Market Institute
Best of the Rest: What To Do In A World Crisis...
- Dr./Ambassador Alison Thompson, Third Wave Volunteers.
Green report: Here's How We Get To 100% Renewables
- Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute/Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for 100% Clean Energy
PLUS, We Need to Stop the GMO Labeling "Compromise"
- Patty Lovera, Food & Water Watch |
Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Seventy percent of Americans think the economy is rigged...
Quote: " The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people. We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting people to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, break up their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." - John Ehrlichman.
Hour Two: Have American Workers Lost Their Tribe?
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The Democratic Party Platform.... It's A Start.
Why Does Chris Christie Want To Screw New Jersey Schools?
What Can Dogs Teach Us About Fighting Austerity?
European Banksters Want To Push Their Globalization On All of Us!
SCOTUS Short Version: If You Don't Want To Sell Pills, Don't Be A Pharmacist!
TTP / TTIP / TISA... Trading Up or Selling Out??? (w/Guest: Celeste Drake)
How Do We Define Neoliberalism To Make Americans Understand? (w/Guest: Ari Rabin-Havt)
Neoliberalism Is An Economic & Political Cancer!
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