Arctic Ice shrinks 18% in a year

[arista]

This was on Ch4News tonight
they say in 10 or 20 years most Ice could go.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2011/3/10/1299776043024/Arctic-melting-ice--Icebe-007.jpg


"Our response [so far] has not been alarm, or panic, or a sense of emergency. It has been: ‘Let’s go up there and drill for oil’. There is no more perfect indictment of our failure to get to grips with the greatest problem we’ve ever faced,' says author and environmental campaigner Bill McKibben."

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/audio/video/2012/9/19/1348085090630/Arctic-sea-ice-001.jpg

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/19/arctic-ice-shrinks



Run to The Hills

[Novo]

Time to send in a fleet of rescue boats and take the Polar Bears, Seals and Penguins to safety

[arista]

Time to send in a fleet of rescue boats and take the Polar Bears, Seals and Penguins to safety


Sadly they are Doomed

[billy123]

We have only been capable of monitoring the size of the icecaps properly for 33 years (since the advent of satellite radar) its a bit too soon to panic but the headline "the fluctuation in the earths temprature is normal" isnt very exciting so its not gong to get said is it?

[arista]

We have only been capable of monitoring the size of the icecaps properly for 33 years (since the advent of satellite radar) its a bit too soon to panic but the headline "the fluctuation in the earths temprature is normal" isnt very exciting so its not gong to get said is it?


Warmer in the Artic
though
hence ice going

[fruit_cake]

It seems to me that the worlds really not all that big, and when you think of all the car journeys, air flights, power stations etc that must be churning out co2 day in day out, it's doesn't seem surprising really that global warming is happening and the arctic ice is melting.

[arista]

Yes as it melts
More Drilling for oil , starts up.


Life In The Fast Lane.

[arista]

Yes as it melts
More Drilling for oil , starts up.


Life In The Fast Lane.

[Kizzy]

Here are some websites to get some more stats...

Web Sites
Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Data
Analysis Services (FAGS):
www.icsu-fags.org/
Global Climate Observing System (GCOS):
www.wmo.ch/pages/prog/gcos/
GlobGlacier project:
www.globglacier.ch
Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS):
www.glims.org
Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers (GTN-G):
www.gtn-g.org
Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS):
www.fao.org/gtos/
International Association of Cryospheric Sciences
(IACS):
www.cryosphericsciences.org/
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO):
www.unesco.org/
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
www.unep.org/
US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC):
www.nsidc.org
World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS):
www.wgms.ch
World Meteorological Organization (WMO):
www.wmo.ch

http://www.fao.org/gtos/doc/ECVs/T06/T06.pdf

Happy reading :)

[Nedusa]

I think Penguins live in Antartica......

[fruit_cake]

quite scary really to think we're probably destroying the world

[Kizzy]

quite scary really to think we're probably destroying the world

It is, on the eighth day those with all the money will wonder what it was all for.

[arista]

It is, on the eighth day those with all the money will wonder what it was all for.


In the future as this Planet
fades away
New Hi Tech Moon bases will be built
for the Lucky ones that get there.