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Originally Posted by aerohead

PBS NEWS HOUR had a couple of tidbits last night.
* Deadhorse, Alaska recorded 89-F ( 31.6 C ) for a week, breaking it's record of 85 F.
* Juneau, Alaska has now flooded again, something it's experienced every year now, since 2011, due to Mendenhall Glacier meltwater ice-dam lake outbursts.
* Earth has warmed enough now, that models predict 104,000 glaciers ( half of the planet's ) will be gone by 2100.
* So, in one 'lifetime', humans will live to experience the loss of half of all our planets glaciers.
* Presently, 103 glaciers are 'extinct,' since 1770.
* As the snow melts, the darker ice below, exposed to sunlight, absorbs even more sunlight, accelerating warming ,melting, amplifying the process.
* When the ice is melted, the remarkably-darker soil and rock absorb even more sun, adding another amplifying feedback loop to global warming.
The good news is that, you won't have to 'boil' your lobster, it'll come up 'ready to eat.' ( just kidding, there won't be any lobster, or anything else for that matter ).

Well, bye.