Satellite images show a very disturbing regression of the ice cap from 2004 to 2006. The article excerpted discusses this year when “a ship could sail unhindered from Europe's most northerly outpost to the North Pole itself.”
Arctic Sea Ice Melts in Winter
These articles discuss the 14% loss of ice, and that the melt continued even in winter time.
Permafrost Melt : The Biggest Climate Problem
Head NASA climatologist (J Hansen) said that his biggest fear was the melting of the 35,000 year old permafrost.
. This page includes a BBC video report on the lakes bubbling methane, and a report that some hotspots don’t freeze because of the bubbling gases. One paper discusses the amount of carbon which is becoming available, and shows the calculation I did which may mean that:
... ANNUAL RELEASE (in CO2 terms) = 9.5 billion tonnes per year
...Current Fossil Fuel Release = 6 billion tonnes per year
[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on September 25, 2006]
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Startling Disappearanc...
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Michael
Environment, didn't show up at the International Climate Change
meeting of which she is chairman.
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."<br />
(Albert Einstein)