(Posted by John.)
So the summer's not even over yet, but Arctic ice is now at a record low.
The latest findings support an alarm issued last week by anotherclimate expert at the University of Illinois that all-time records formaximum meltage of the polar ice cap will be "annihilated" by the timeArctic temperatures start turning colder in mid-September.
"Everyone is seeing the same thing," Mark Serreze, a seniorresearcher with the Boulder, Colo.-based National Snow and Ice DataCenter, told CanWest News Service on Friday.
"The sea ice seems to be on this death spiral," he said. "And thisis not some nebulous thing like global temperature rises. You can seethis with your own eyes."
Worse still, the ice is already retreating below the limit that the IPCC predicted it would reach... in 2050. There's going to be a slightly-fresher sea at the top of the world when we're done with this planet.
