The maximum ice cover on the Arctic ocean this winter was at an all time low, some 300,000 square kilometers less than last year. Wat Meier, a researcher at the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado commented;
It’s a pretty stark drop. In the winter the ice tends to be pretty stable, so the last three years, with this steady decline, really stick out.
A steady stream of findings lately suggest that climate change is accelerating. The ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting faster than thought. The Arctic ice sheet is shrinking. Severe droughts have gripped parts of South Asia, Africa, and the U.S. Southwest. Last year’s hurricane season set numerous records, and Gulf water temperatures are already above normal.
The time has come not only to work to eliminate global warming pollution but to plan for living with the climate change that now looks inevitable.
And on this topic, the trailer to Al Gore’s global warming movie, “An Inconvenient Truth” can be seen here.