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Yes folks ... time to leave behind those wonderful fantasies about how many angels can fit on the head of a pin ... or universes in a multiverse. So another dose for those who will inherit our mess.

Global warming may decimate the top 10 feet (3 meters) or more of perennially frozen soil across the Northern Hemisphere, altering ecosystems as well as damaging buildings and roads across Canada, Alaska, and Russia. New simulations from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) show that over half of the area covered by this topmost layer of permafrost could thaw by 2050 and as much as 90 percent by 2100. Scientists expect the thawing to increase runoff to the Arctic Ocean and release vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.

Source:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051220085054.htm

Ok ... you can now get back to your XBox 360s and leave the fate of the planet to my benevolent generation.

you are very clever. thats good info.I wonder if the National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored(influenced) or independent?? Do you know??

So what's being done about this?

Absolutely nothing. At least not in the US where we are engaged in a slow death spiral of ignorance.

LMAO, thanks for the post.
Adapt.