how did it go from 12 years to save the planet to 17 months?

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how did it go from 12 years to save the planet to 17 months?

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New data on unprecedented glacial melt happening in Greenland and other arctic regions, made them ring alarm bells:

[https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/08/greenland-is-track-record-melt-year-having-already-lost-billion-tons-ice/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/08/greenland-is-track-record-melt-year-having-already-lost-billion-tons-ice/)

**edited link – did not mean to post a cat vid :P**

It’s not just the arctic glacials that’s melting, its the trapped methane bubbles trapped in the ice that is released. You cant put that genie back in the bottle. You couple that with existing pollution and growing fracking and Amazon fires and you expedite the speed exponentially.

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