Arctic Melt Caught on Video

For more Discovery News go to: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/news.html. Greenland's Petermann Glacier is poised to lose a Manhattan-sized chunk, and the Nares Strait was ice-free all year for the first time, according to Greenpeace. Jorge Ribas reports.

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[roublard]

Those seagulls look shady. I wouldn't rule them out as possible links to the melting ice. Just look at how casual they are about things.

[elocoetam]

I bet it takes a lot of fuel to keep that greenpeace boat up and running,...

[saxonmor]

The only people who believe climate change is a myth are non-scientists and politicians and industrialists with a vested interest. 99% of the scientific community says there is no doubt that climate change is real. Of course all you laymen out there are so much more qualified to make armchair judgements than the scientists actually studying this matter.

"So put another lawg on the fie-ur..."

Hyuk, hyuk

[Kastralis]

this is all bullshit. climate fluctuations happen all the time and these frog humpers are blaming it on stuff that isnt doing anything

[Alieaser]

even if developed countries would all help what would they do? Refrigerate Earth? Pull Earth 900,000 miles away from the sun?.. the closest thing i'm imagining is that developed countries would nuke those who produce too much carbon thus creating more carbon pollution.. you can't just "talk" other countries out of using such industries..

[CokeSupply]

So... did Greenland lose a glacier the size of Manhatten 2 months after this video was made? Or did nothing happen? ;)

[CokeSupply]

@alegomaris As the ice melts and the oceans evaporate, cloud cover increases, reflecting more sunlight back into space. Also, the warmer earth gets, the more heat it radiates out into space. Thus global warming is pure bullshit.

[hairoftehdog]

I like how people are so arrogant to think that changing climate is damaging and the end of the world. We've been here for a flicker of time compared to the Earth's existence. And we think just because the temperature is as it is right now, that it's the way the world is SUPPOSED to be, and we need to make a trading system that would do nothing to right the 'problem'... It doesn't matter WHAT we do to this planet. After we go, the planet will be as-new within 20 thousand years...

[alegomaris]

The worst part is that as ice melts, sun rays reflection diminishes, as oceans absorb heat better than the ice itself due their color. Thus global warming feeds itself.

Parvati, a Canadian singer is thus going to sing in the North Pole to bring more awareness to this issue. We need everyone to do their part, artist, scientists, you!

[Phonologie]

Nice picture from Director Mark Serreze

[erwinparker]

couldnt get a nicer picture of Mark Serreze?

[alextheskaterdude07]

Too bad global warming is a proven scam