David Antoni
Its US mess, yet again and their job to clean it up but bet they will screw that up as they have done with everything else done since WW2.
Kaiser Derden
What warming trend ? none for 19 years ...
Mel Tisdale
Bad as the release of pollutants will be, it palls into insignificance compared to the danger of methane (a potent greenhouse gas) being released due to melting clathrates. This has already begun with kilometer wide methane plumes having been recorded. When the summer sea ice eventually disappears completely, it will be anybody's guess as to whether it goes into runaway mode. Can't blame the scientists, heaven knows they have given us enough warnings of the danger. It is not as though the ice-core record doesn't show it having happened in the past with the quickest transition to it becoming an extinction event being 13 years. If only release of toxins were all we have to concern us.
tyme2par4
So in 200 years, it might be a problem? If we don't slow or stop climate change. I'm not too concerned about it. In 200 years, that wastewater could well be inert anyway. Not the nuclear, but the human waste.
PeterOsborne
The article says " might be" then, it might not. Regardless in 45 days, it will freeze up again until May. 3017 when it will start to melt......and the net average temp. will be caused by differing energy levels from the sun, as it has been for billions of years.
BrianK56
David is right, it is the responsibility of the US government to restore it to it's original condition. Too much money and time, too much BS, get it in gear and clean it up.
ClarenceFeinour
I'd bet that by 2090 most or all reading this article will be long gone so we won't be around to see what the then so call scientist will be forecasting. It's always doom and gloom with those guys. Sounds like we have another hockey stick forecast that can't be proven and by putting a distant date on it, its easy to switch back to the Global freeze that these guys were forecasting back in the 70s. They can't seem to make their minds up. Are we going to freeze to death or die from heat strokes. Meanwhile Fukeshima continues to pollute the oceans and nobodys talking about it.
JoanHilton
It seems that everything the government touches turns to s**t. Here in Alaska everywhere the Army was based has huge problems with pollution. Clean up has been going on for over 25 years and will probably continue for many years to come. Some of the contamination is due to waste being sent up from the lower 48 since Alaska is so large it can handle it. Guess what it isn't.
Chris Curl
63000 gallons of sewage and radioactive discharge is essentially nothing. Just more worrying folks over nothing.
habakak
'...researchers looked at climate projections and found that by the end of the century, the ice might be melting faster than it's being replenished....' Really. You can predict what the climate will be like in 90 years? You are a fool if you think you can. Because we know so much more than 100 years ago, it does not mean we know a lot. The climate has incalculable flux and so many variables. And to predict that for the globe or Greenland 90 years from now is a fools errand.
Besides that we can't do anything about it except for cleaning up our global energy production system. And that is in process. No whining or projecting is going to change that. The energy production system will go clean as it becomes economically viable. It's already gaining massive momentum. We will also find out in a few decades that this is a non-issue.