According to a report from the University of Swansea’s School of the Environment and Society Greenland glaciers have begun to flow and break up more quickly due to global warming. In fact the Kangerdlugssuaq (wtf?!) and Helheim glaciers had doubled their rate of flow to the ocean over the past two years after steady movement during the 1990s.

“The report followed a warning earlier this week from Britain’s Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research — a branch of the Meteorological Office — that the Greenland ice sheet could be disappearing faster than previously thought.

Scientists predict that global average temperatures will rise by between one and six degrees Celsius this century unless urgent action is taken now to cap and reduce carbon emissions.

Scientists said on Monday the world had to halt greenhouse gas emissions and reverse them within two decades or watch the planet spiraling towards destruction.”

Once called alarmists, lunatics or just plain delusional alfalfa smoking hippies, scientists who defended the global warming theory in the early 80’s seams to gain more attention lately and with good reason. These are the people who tried to warn us that a greenhouse effect was happening 20 years ago while everyone was too busy living it ‘to the max’ and snorting cocaine to listen. The international community basically laughed at them and told them to go fuck some goat cheese. Now that scientific reports and facts from all over the world leave no doubts that good old planet Earth temperature is on the rise, the same guys are telling us that if no radical action to cut down on greenhouse gas emission is taken we will face a point of no return in 15 to 20 years. I don’t know about you but for fucking humanity sake maybe, just maybe, we should listen to them this time or WE could be fucking goat cheese sooner than expected.

As of February 2006 the United States, the world’s biggest polluter, still reject both the Kyoto protocol in its current form and any suggestion of expanding or extending it.

More about global warming on Wikipedia here.
Climate change predictions by the Hadley Center here.

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