Credit where credit is due: Brilliant story on this year's AGU by Jonathan Mingle in Slate.
Many of us have wondered at some point in almost precisely these terms: “Is Earth F**ked?” But it’s not the sort of frank query you expect an expert in geomorphology to pose to his colleagues as the title of a formal presentation at one of the world’s largest scientific gatherings.
Dare you not to read the rest.
Spoiler: The blunt-spoken scientist wants to save his beloved Greenland
At the conference the idea that the heat wave that melted 97% of Greenland's ice sheet in five days this July came up, and its similiarity to other heat waves, in this country in the Midwest especially.
