-
The Sermilik fjord in Greenland: a chilling view of a warming world | Environment | The Guardian
The predicted year when summers in the Arctic would be free of sea ice has fallen from 2100 to 2050 to 2030 in a couple of years.
Jay Zwally, a Nasa scientist, recently suggested it could be virtually ice-free by late summer 2012. Between 2004 and 2008 the area of “multiyear” Arctic sea ice (ice that has formed over more than one winter and survived the summer melt) shrank by 595,000 sq miles, an area larger than France, Germany and the United Kingdom combined.
Very well written, very sobering article on arctic ses ice.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
The Sermilik fjord in Greenland: a chilling view of a warming world | Environment | The Guardian The predicted year when summers in the Arctic would be free of sea ice has fallen from 2100 to 2050 to 2030 in a couple of years. Jay Zwally, a Nasa scientist, recently suggested it could be virtually ice-free by [...]
This comment was originally posted on FriendFeed