Everybody Panic!

Retreating polar ice caps are a sure sign of human-induced global warming. Everyone knows this. Those who disagree are the same sort of flat-Earthers as those who deny the Holocaust. The only real question is how this trend can be reversed, and how quickly the population of the United States, and other developed countries, can be trained in pre-Industrial Revolution technology.

But it now seems that the problem is far worse than even the most pessimistic environmentalists thought, at least according to National Geographic. It really is time to give up your SUV.