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OSLO (Reuters) - Natural swings in the Arctic climate have caused up to half the precipitous losses of sea ice around the North Pole in recent decades, with the rest driven by man-made global warming, scientists said on Monday.
The study indicates that an ice-free Arctic Ocean, often feared to be just years away, in one of the starkest signs of man-made global warming, could be delayed if nature swings back to a cooler mode.
Natural variations in the Arctic climate "may be responsible for about 30–50 percent of the overall decline in September sea ice since 1979," the U.S.-based team of scientists wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Sea ice has shrunk steadily and hit a record low in September 2012 -- late summer in the Arctic -- in satellite records dating back to 1979.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 15 2017, @02:51AM
That's what's hilarious about all this. Reality doesn't care what one thinks of it. Climate change doesn't care whether one believes in it. It also hates being anthropomorphized. It's become a matter of personal pride to people to be able to guarantee a worse future for their grandchildren.
I don't want children, but, maybe this is just me, if I did decide to have a few children, I would want their children to have a better future.
Everybody being emotionally invested in ensuring the worst possible future is one reason I don't think I want to be responsible for bringing any new children into the world. It's so irrational, I can't even.
It makes my decision to just not have children seem quite a lot less irrational than it would at first, given that the meaning of life is essentially to make little copies of yourself.