Completely Unnecessary

Oh, by the way? A chunk (and that’s the scientific term, I believe) of arctic sea ice the size of Florida has melted away in the last six days. That seems bad. We’ve busted all previous records for melting, as well.

“If you had asked me a few years ago about how fast the Arctic would be ice free in summer, I would have said somewhere between about 2070 and the turn of the century,” said scientist Mark Serreze, polar ice expert at the NSIDC. “My view has changed. I think that an ice-free Arctic as early as 2030 is not unreasonable.”

And that means the oceans don’t cool as much, meaning that the Earth gets even warmer - and it kind of spirals down to extreme badness from there.

I should point out that this makes my crisis over whether to do question 1 (about Doreen Massey and universalised globalisation theories) or question 2 (about the role of ethnographic fieldwork in diaspora/transnational communities) seem even more absurd. I’m seriously thinking about seeing if I can just present it in an interpretive dance or something. You should see the number of half-sentences and false starts littering my screen.

Arctic Ice Continues Record Melting [ABC News - US]

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