Ice on the North arctic is melting even faster than the most audacious predictions. Why? Because humanity is emitting even more CO2 than we thought, global warming is happening even faster than we hoped and the arctic is a fragile system that may have reached its tipping point.
This is further indictment of our unsustainable lifestyle. There can be absolutely no more denying of the direct link between our energy consumption, our carbon footprint and global effects of warming that is fast impinging on the whole biosphere.
This is a good video to watch… easy to understand yet showing the range of expert opinion and the scientific data that underpin our understanding of why arctic ice is melting so fast. When will we have an ice free North Pole? Probably between 2020 and 2030!