"The most cautious forecasts say that the Arctic might become ice-free in the summer by the 2080s or 2090s. But recently many estimates for that scenario have been brought forward."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19508906

But the research is in its earliest stages. For science, the Arctic itself is hard to decipher. The effects of its rapid melt are even tougher.

And again, the pace of research is falling behind the pace of climate change. At this rate the first published papers about how to save the arctic won't appear in the journals until years after it's already too late.

designed to deflect the problem as "well it is too complex and too far off to be something we can figure out" No, the problem is pretty simple, we have pumped way too much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, and the ice will melt. Soon. Sooner than anyone wishes to admit to. And it will cause bigger problems than anyone wishes to admit to. Saying we can't 'decipher' the Arctic is hogwash. We can't predict EXACTLY what will happen, but then we can't predict EXACTLY what will happen next week in the atlantic hurricane season. That doesn't mean that things won't happen, and that we have a pretty good idea of what many of them are.

hits closer to 2014.

BBC's "reporting" doesn't surprise me one little bit.

somebody's gone to a lot of trouble.

Virtual Reality Makes a Comeback with Oculus Rift Headset - LiveScience.com

http://news.yahoo.com/virtual-reality-makes-comeback-oculus-rift-headset-141814189.html

And in the newsroom, I imagine this conversation: "Ice? Did you say something about ice? No thanks, I take my scotch neat."

So apparently stuff like melting polar ice doesn't even happen in the so-called real world of mainstream news.

All rejoicing. Far easier to get what they want, with out all that silly ice in the way.

Not to say that this means i think chemtrails or HAARP were involved.
And not that the likes of Halliburton would ever consider blasting the planet to allow itself to reap huge profits.

I do have to ask - why isn't the Antarctic melting just as fast? (I know the Antarctic has a land mass beneath it.) And maybe it is melting away as fast?

I used to think my husband & I would exit this planet in good time, but now I'm not so sure.