North Pole Is Now An Island: Massive Ice Melt

Well, it happened.  Chalk one up for the scientists.  The North Pole is now an island.  There were warnings that this might happen – years before originally ever thought.  You could sail a boat in open water all around the North Pole.  The Northeast and Northwestern passages are open.  What was once merely a pipe dream is now a reality.  You could sail from England to China through Canadian waters directly through the newly melted channels.  For the first time in the history of mankind, the North Pole could be circumnavigated.  Now tell me that global warming and the climate crisis is bullshit.  There is no way that man has not had a hand in this.  This is not the product of underground lava and hot springs.  The magnitude is too large.

An article from The Independent UK reads:
Four weeks ago, tourists had to be evacuated from Baffin Island’s Auyuittuq National Park because of flooding from thawing glaciers. Auyuittuq means “land that never melts”.

The article goes on to talk about how 9 – yes – 9 polar bears were seen stranded on floating ice – trying to swim 400 miles to land, yet Sarah Palin thinks that Global Warming science is unreliable and is suing the government about the polar bear being endangered.

Get this – they originally thought that global warming would catch up to us and this melting would not be seen until 2070 – over 60 years from now.  All of this is quite amazing to me – the rapid rate of decline in the polar ice cap.  Various water issues are going to come to the forefront in the near future.  Maybe the average joe will start to think about someone other than themselves and how the planet is not here for them to abuse.  I really feel that many people unknowingly abuse the planet.  They’ve never been taught otherwise.  It’s frustrating, but I guess that is one of the reasons I have this blog – to start talking about it.  Sure, I generally talk to those who are “in the know,” but I have to hope that others – who aren’t crazy green zealots like myself read this on occasion, too.

Here is a video from earlier this summer:

Source: The Independent UK