Climate change causing faster ice melt, on both poles
Icecaps around the North and South Poles are melting faster and in a more widespread manner than expected, raising sea levels and fuelling climate change, a major scientific survey from the International Polar Year (IPY) showed, February 25, 2009.
Is another record-breaking loss of Arctic sea-ice due this summer?
Arctic freezing may have stalled and the annual melt may begin earlier. The summer ice extent could shrink to a new record low in 2009, even if the National Weather Service’s prediction of weak la Niña conditions through early summer hold true. This will amplify an already existing dangerous feedback loop driven by the loss of reflectivity of the ice surface. In the Arctic, it’s already too hot.
Arctic is melting even in winter, now 50% of the 1976 thickness
“This is one of the most serious problems the world has ever faced.” Dr. Peter Wadhams, Cambridge University The polar icecap is retreating and thinning at a record rate From The Sunday Times – October 26, 2008 Jonathan Leake The Arctic icecap is now shrinking at record rates in the winter as well as summer, [...]
Downward Trend of Polar Ice Loss Getting Steeper
Arctic Ice Melts to Second-Lowest Level Planet Ark http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/50269/story.htm
ARCTIC ICE CRISIS: WHY WE MUST LOWER ATMOSPHERIC CO2
For the many of us who have been rightly concerned for the fate of our Polar Ice Cap, there is encouraging news from NASA scientist Dr. James E. Hansen. He gives us hope that we can refreeze the polar ice. Dr. Hansen, who prefers to be called Jim Hansen, has been referred to as the [...]
