One of the world’s leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years. That’s earlier than the Earth’s predicted demise in December of 2012, but it could be a major cause of it.
In the September 17th edition of the Guardian, John Vidal quotes climatologist Peter Wadhams as calling it "a global disaster."
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In his dynamic new Insight, Whitley Strieber points out that time is running out–it’s time for big business AND environmentalists to WORK TOGETHER to curb greenhouse gases, because the arctic melt is accelerating at a rapid pace, as can be seen by these stunning "before" and "after" NASA photos.read more
NASA doesn’t just search for life on other planets, its satellites also search the Earth for evidence of melting glaciers. Their "IceSat," which uses lasers to measure the thickness of ice, has discovered that Arctic ice is vanishing 50% faster than expected–at a rate of almost 500 cubic miles per year, since 2004.The Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the planet.
On BBC News, Roger Harrabin quotes climate researcher Seymour Laxon as saying, "We have to be cautious until our data has been properly analyzed as part of a climate model, but this does suggest that the Arctic might be ice-free in summer for a day at least by the end of the decade.
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Greenland isn’t the only place where glaciers are in trouble: While the TOP of the Earth is melting, the BOTTOM of the Earth–the Antarctic–is in trouble too. The polar regions are the most sensitive places on Earth to climate change, so what happens in Antarctica affects the entire Earth, in ways that we have yet to completely understand.
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