WE know that the Arctic ice cap has been melting, but what’s alarming is that it now seems to be doing so at a much faster rate than previously thought.
Here’s an excerpt from the Scientific American article:
WASHINGTON (Reuters)-The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.S. ice expert said on Tuesday.
This means the ocean at the top of the world could be free or nearly free of summer ice by 2020, three decades sooner than the global panel’s gloomiest forecast of 2050.
No ice on the Arctic Ocean during summer would be a major spur to global warming, said Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Center in Colorado.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Have you seen the movie “waterworld”?if not try to watch. The reason I mention this because the movie portrays the exact effects of global warming. If the global warming continues to rise, the arctic ice cap will continue to melt and cause to increase the waterlevel that might result calamities,flood and more.
It will not be too late for us to change the mistakes that we have done. S