If you don’t believe in climate change you’re probably celebrating the UK’s decision to leave the EU right now, whilst eagerly awaiting Trump’s next round of word vomit on the campaign trail.

Well considering that you’ve already ignored (melting) mountains of evidence I doubt some pink snow is going to change your mind but heck, we’ll give it a bash anyway.

Pink snow, watermelon snow, call it what you will – it’s just another example of the drastic melting of the Arctic. Below from Huffington Post:

[It] is the result of a red algae that likes to bloom in the frozen water. In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, researchers found that those algal blooms are causing the ice to melt faster, and the algae is likely to grow more rapidly as climate change melts even more of the Arctic into the liquid water that feeds them…

This is not an instance of the unprecedented melt in the Arctic occurring naturally and without manmade global warming. On the contrary, the study authors say, it’s an example of how human-caused climate change functions on a positive feedback loop with other things in nature.

“As we infer from our data, melting is one major driver for snow algal growth,” the study notes. “Extreme melt events like that in 2012, when 97% of the entire Greenland Ice Sheet was affected by surface melting, are likely to re-occur with increasing frequency in the near future as a consequence of global warming. Moreover, such extreme melting events are likely to even further intensify the effect of snow algae on surface albedo, and in turn melting rates”…

“The algae need liquid water in order to bloom,” she said. “Therefore the melting of snow and ice surfaces controls the abundance of the algae. The more melting, the more algae.

It’s a vicious cycle, kind of like Fat Bastard and his eating (HERE).

Take a look at this great video from last year, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and shared on the Washington Post. White indicates ice more than nine years old, whereas dark blue is ice created in the most recent winter:

Looks like ice older than nine years has taken a real beating, which points towards a serious long term problem.

Here future generations, good luck living on this shit hole we’ve left behind.

[source:huffingtonpost]