Arctic Sea Ice Continues Decline, Hits 2nd-Lowest Level, a photo by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr.
The above pic comes from NASA's Flickr stream. The yellow line is where there's usually ice. The red line is the Northwest Passage. Yes. That's right, the Northwest fucking Passage.
This is some seriously crazy shit here, folks. Hundreds of years ago, Henry Hudson bet his life on finding the Northwest Passage and he lost that bet. Now Global Warming has *created* the Northwest Passage. This is an incredible, scary thing. Our *planet* is literally changing in front of our eyes.
This is not supposed to happen.
The phrase "cosmic scale" exists for a reason--it means that time doesn't really pass for us because we're here for such a short time compared to the rest of the planet and the rest of the universe. When things change this quickly something serious is going on and there could be a lot of ripple effects that we could have a hard time predicting.
Keep watching the skies...
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