Expected.

Similarly, as the mountain glaciers have been melting, chemicals trapped in snow and ice have been making their way into the mountain lakes and environment.

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look at the bright side! the melting ice caps clear the way for oil exploration. soon we'll be paying 50 cents a gallon just like in the good old days! and that means we'll all be gathering at the mall with a fist full of plastic.

gee, i sure hope sombody opens a new boutique. i really want to be the first on my block sporting a new designer gas mask!

Side note: as of today, Arctic Ocean ice melt is in record territory. http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_stddev_timeseri...

I think its a convenient story for the oil companies. When they have a spill they will say that all the toxins were already there. How did man made toxins get into ice that has been frozen for thousands of years? Has someone already spilled a bunch of nasty toxins, perhaps to excellerate the ice melting so they can get those drills in there sooner? Svalbard, being the home of Bill Gates seed bank. An impregnable fortress that can withstand a nuclear attack. Maybe they also stored some roundup, and other toxic chemicals, and they ate thier way out of the fortress and into the artic waters. That story seems more likely than the one the author told.

I seriously question this one. As quip pointed out..'frozen for thousands of years' is a big deal. I believe we need to turn our focus back to southern Loiuisiana and Texas, Exxon and Dupont, Dow and dirty. The rivers are running full of this crap, as well as the oceans. So maybe some has currented up north and now scientists in their haste have decided it melted out from the dinosaur fishbones.

the ice that has been frozen for thousands of years is glacial...greenland and antarctica feature this type of ice... the polar sea ice hasn't been...it is only a handful of years old...it sounds like both the arctic water and the ice, whether floating on the water, or nearer the surface of glacial bodies like greenland, have been storing these particles due to their low temperatures, not state as liquid or solid... greenland's ice sheet surface is notably polluted... the stuff is coming from both as temperatures warm... not much in the way of meaningful numbers, here...have to go looking...

In so many ways, so many forms, and for so many people, the fuse is lit, the timer is ticking. I'll probably survive, and I'll probably regret it. NASA's planning rover missions to Mars, manned contact with an asteroid, and pols are worrying about Social Security solvency. Meanwhile, the gore-fest (an ironic term if there ever was one) goes on in the carbon fuel industry, a last grab for soon-to-be-meaningless profits. Medicare is about to be gutted and we've got the aftermath of Fukushima and now our checkered past with persistants to look forward to in the coming decades as we careen down that imminent path of eminant stupidity we've laid before us. Never was there a species more hell-bent on virtual self-destruction since cyanobacteria ruled the planet. Homonids? Sapiens? Us?? I'm speechless--for the most part--but at the moment I'm just pissed off that Amy Winehouse is dead. Couldn't we have just kept her around for a little longer to salve our unsalvageable souls? No, and that's just a sign of the times. Or of Lucifer. Or something along those lines. So she's gone...where's my fiddle?

Blowback, something people can't understand how or why this is happening. Once again, it is just like flipping your children and theirs to come the bird finger and telling them 'you fix it'.

My first thought at reading this article was "so that's where all that stuff went to." My second thought was, "just when you thought environmental news couldn't get anymore depressing..."

Amurkans unquestioningly accept their high rates of autism and asthma as an industrial "cost of doing business" and will love taking more drugs for rising cancer rates and neurological disorders from these POPs. Ya can't make omelets without busting a few eggs, can ya?

So are we screwed, or what? Bright side? Hey, the NFL impasse is almost resolved....sigh.

Well this was all news twenty years ago if any of you or any other sentient beings on this planet would have bothered to read. http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/ Science is science and I do not care about your god views……by the way…..How is that working out for you? ( No paragraph spacing again. Is CD being hacked?)

The Rapture is coming! Won't be long now!

I wonder what methane will add to the toxic stew.

As long as belief trumps understanding our descent into a hellish future will only gain speed and momentum. We are imprisoned in the dungeons of nationalism and religious nonsense. Crimes against the planet continue and go unpunished. A local mystic informed me the harps in heaven are all plastic and made in china.

We reap what we sow. Our shit will always come back to us. Think about that next time the company you work for dumps its toxic wastes in a stream and you do nothing to stop it.

Danger! Astrology spoken here! Neptune is the planet said to rule Pisces, and that is the sign that is closing, so that the next phase, Aquarius can begin. We have been in the overlap, or cusp phase for about 50 years (each age lasts 2200 years)... in any case, Neptune requires 165 years to orbit the sun, and it recently returned to Pisces, its own sign. Pisces is where the "circle meets itself," thus it suggests two things: 1. That everything comes full circle (and is connected) and 2. Nothing exists without consequences. Astrologers refer to Pisces, the Zodiac's last or 12th house as the place of self-undoing. It exposes those areas where mankind has worked against itself. (PARAGRAPH)-------------------------------- Like Rachel Carson, Ralph Nader (on the garbage industry co-opting the term "organic"), and David Suzuki, to name a few, I've always tried to tell people to not use pesticides, or heavy chemicals. Now with Neptune in the sign of chemicals, especially those that mimic nature (for Neptune is associated with deception), all these toxic entities are indeed coming full circle. (PARAGRAPH)----------------------------------------------- Dr. Seuss, in my view, was a Master, and he tried to convey the deepest lessons (or universal laws) to children. "The Cat In the Hat" teaches children that they can't make their mess just disappear. It'll end up somewhere; so they'd best own up and deal with it. Apparently that key lesson passed a lot of industries, and likely scientists, right by. (PARAGRAPH)----------------------------------------- Nature was willing to put up with humanity's slow learning curve until too many tipping points got triggered. Many prophecies have spoken about the earth changes, and now they are taking place because human beings failed to live by the basic universal laws. Probably the primary cornerstone of all of them is: "Harm None." Compare that with the chemical tonnage DAILY poured into nature's once pristine, self-replicating ecosystems, or the tonnage of money poured into war... the ultimate Harm Agent. So here we are... full circle. Gas mask, anyone?

We should all enjoy the time we have left, do what we can to improve our lot, then when the end comes, just pray it's quick.

The religious zealots will look at you with a straight face and say it doesn't matter what we do to the planet because it is just a stop-over to paradise. We are supposed to do whatever "God" commands, and if that means overrunning the planet with machines, toxic chemicals, roads and large automobiles, and pump out that Co2, by the way, then so be it! As long as we get to church on time, "tithe", raise our arms and scream "Halleluiah!!!" the rest will take care of itself. Besides, the planet is only 6000 years old, so it'll be ok. Meanwhile we're breathing crap and eating GMO food, but remember--just "get saved" and you'll survive the "Rapture"

thanks for the laffs guys................

Check out my climate change rap song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTX3FJDSFjo&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

The cancer epidemic is well under way. Y'all can "Race for the Cure" til the cows come home, but IT'S THE ENVIRONMENT, STUPID!

And don't forget the radiation spewing machine at Fukushima that no one seems to know how to shut off. That nightmare should at the very least change the look & lifespan of our progeny. I don't know if we are actually doomed outright or if we are rapidly devolving. I can see future generations clapping our flippers, dragging our eight legs to a podium, glaring at our opponents from our one weeping eye and endlessly pondering whether it is a case of Destructionism or Devolution.