A major new outlet is calling the race: The ancient Arctic ice cover is imminently doomed:
Arctic melt passes the point of no return - The Independent
Unequivocal evidence. A decade earlier than predicted:
Scientists have found the first unequivocal evidence that the Arctic region is warming at a faster rate than the rest of the world at least a decade before it was predicted to happen.
This is a surface-albedo feedback. Heat absorption increases as reflective white ice is replaced by infra-red absorbent dark water -- ever burn your feet on hot black-top while the white sidewalk was cool? It is probably an uncontrollable positive feedback loop that has already doomed the arctic ice cover to complete melt within the next few years, as many scientists had predicted would eventually happen.
This is how one scientist puts it in the article:
"One of the reasons we focus on Arctic amplification is that it is a good test of greenhouse warming theory. Even our earliest climate models were telling us that we should see this Arctic amplification emerge as we lose the summer ice cover," Dr Stroeve said. "This is exactly what we are not [sic (now)] starting to see in the observations. Simply put, it's a case of we hate to say we told you so, but we did," she added.
Out of pacifism, I would like to abstain from calling for the heads of every politician that allowed the climate change crisis to be left unmanaged until it was too late for the critical arctic ice cover.
But.
If we do not, as a people and democracy, identify the causes of the fatal dysfunctions of both our political and economic systems that have led to this tragic loss of a major pillar of the global climate system, our species is as doomed as the ice.
I am sure glad for DailyKos where corporatism is questioned. It is not questioned in the traditional media or even by many liberal people unexposed to the full information of the times. When questioned, corporatism fails to produce satisfying answers while it powers the destruction of our precious planet.