Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Le Shorter: Chicken Little


The ice is melting, the ice is melting! AP reports that the extent of Arctic sea ice has reached another record low. Satellite photos show a coverage of 2.02 million square miles this year, down from the previous record low of 2.05 million in 2005. A spokesman for the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado said that the record melt is strong evidence of the effects of global warming. At this rate, a complete melt would occur by 2030. Top photo is 1979, bottom photo is 2003. http://www.nsidc.org/