From the article link you posted. Confirmation tha

From the article link you posted. Confirmation that climate change is happening and no indication that it is NOT occurring because of human 'activity'.

Calling scientists 'secular humanists' does absolutely nothing to discredit their work. Science is science, it's subjected to experiment and confirmation or rejection based upon the repeatability of those experiments. If you don't understand that much, you have work to do.

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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/...is-melting

Rignot, who grew up in France, studies both Greenland’s ice sheet and Antarctica’s. Two years ago, he published a paper arguing that a key section of the West Antarctic ice sheet, the Amundsen Sea sector, had gone into “irreversible retreat.” The Amundsen Sea sector contains more than two hundred thousand cubic miles of ice, meaning that, if Rignot’s analysis is correct, it will, inevitably, raise global sea levels by four feet.

“This Is What a Holy Shit Moment for Global Warming Looks Like,” Mother Jones declared when the paper was released.

first visited the Greenland ice sheet in the summer of 2001. At that time, vivid illustrations of climate change were hard to come by. Now they’re everywhere—in the flooded streets of Florida and South Carolina, in the beetle-infested forests of Colorado and Montana, in the too warm waters of the Mid-Atlantic and the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, in the mounds of dead mussels that washed up this summer on the coast of Long Island and the piles of dead fish that coated the banks of the Yellowstone River.

But the problem with global warming—and the reason it continues to resist illustration, even as the streets flood and the forests die and the mussels rot on the shores—is that experience is an inadequate guide to what’s going on. The climate operates on a time delay. When carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere, it takes decades—in a technical sense, millennia—for the earth to equilibrate. This summer’s fish kill was a product of warming that had become inevitable twenty or thirty years ago, and the warming that’s being locked in today won’t be fully felt until today’s toddlers reach middle age. In effect, we are living in the climate of the past, but already we’ve determined the climate’s future.

Global warming’s back-loaded temporality makes all the warnings—from scientists, government agencies, and, especially, journalists—seem hysterical, Cassandra-like—Ototototoi!—even when they are understated.

Once feedbacks take over, the climate can change quickly, and it can change radically. At the end of the last ice age, during an event known as meltwater pulse 1A, sea levels rose at the rate of more than a foot a decade. It’s likely that the “floodgates” are already open, and that large sections of Greenland and Antarctica are fated to melt. It’s just the ice in front of us that’s still frozen.

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