Rapid warming and disintegrating polar ice set the stage for ‘societal collapse’

The Arctic and Antarctic are seeing an accelerated collapse of both sea and land ice.

When you add in Trump’s aggressive agenda to undo both domestic and global climate action, we are facing the worst-case scenario for climate change — and one new study finds that the worst case is “societal collapse.”

The unprecedented drop in global sea ice we reported on last month has continued. Arctic sea ice reached a new record low, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) reports.

Read Joe Romm’s story on Think Progress - “Rapid warming and disintegrating polar ice set the stage for ‘societal collapse’.”