Record Loss of Arctic Sea Ice Accelerates Global Warming

For the third summer in a row record losses of sea ice now diminish the "albedo effect", that is, the reflective capacity of the polar ice caps. With the loss of albedo comes the increased acceleration of global warming as multipliers abound. These multipliers include the melting of permafrost in which greenhouse gases have been sequestered, the increased absorption of solar energy in the polar regions themselves, etc. Scientists now say that we have crossed the threshold: things will irreversibly decline from now on. See: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=57&ItemID=8761