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The Arctic is melting like an ice cream cone in a Las Vegas June and Bush is finally calling for Americans to cut gas consumption. Of course, if prices drop, he'll likely encourage tax cuts for SUVs. Whatever he does, it may be too late.
The Guardian reports that global warming in the Arctic could be soaring out of control. Scientists warned yesterday as new figures revealed that melting of sea ice in the region has accelerated to record levels.
Experts at the US National Snow and Data Centre in Colorado fear the region is locked into a destructive cycle with warmer air melting more ice, which in turn warms the air further. Satellite pictures show that the extent of Arctic sea ice this month dipped some 20% below the long term average for September - melting an extra 500,000 square miles, or an area twice the size of Texas. If current trends continue, the summertime Arctic Ocean will be completely ice-free well before the end of this century.
Remember that movie, The Day After Tomorrow? If any President can make that doomsday disaster happen it's Bush. He already let New Orleans become New Atlantis.
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Have you noticed that everything Bush touches turns to shit? That asshole could even turn the Rockies into the great plaines before he's finished. Nothing is safe, nor sacred with him in office.
He refuses to sign on to the Kyoto Treaty to reduce emissions. We are the biggest polluters and in reality, it is our refusal to pay our fair share for gas that others in the industrialized world are paying, more than double the price. Take away the subsidies and you'd see a rapid turnabout in either administration in Washington. It would be a good start.
