The North Pole Heats Up

According to this article (https://wwa.climatecentral.org/analyses/north-pole-nov-dec-2016/) the north pole was 23 degrees F warmer than average in November 2016. One of the charts in the article shows that arctic ice is down about 25% since 1978.

I think the critical questions about global warming are these:

1. Is it really happening or not?
2. Is it caused by human activities or not?
3. Can we stop it or not?
4. If we can stop it, how do we do that?
5. If we can't stop it, how do we prepare for the new and warmer world which will include massive relocations of populations away from current coastlines, more overcrowding of interior living spaces, more violent weather, more infectious disease, breakdown of agricultural economies near the equator, etc?

Many people are still grappling with (or stuck on) questions 1 and 2, including some of our new government officials here in the United States.

Most people have probably, by now, advanced to questions 3 and 4.

I am very much concerned we might actually be getting close to a point where it's too late to worry about questions 1-4 and we need to get to work on question 5.

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