The consensus among the world top scientists is that we have a climate crisis. The extensive global warming is human caused, which is causing our climate crisis.
Last month, the United nations gave an estimate that dire effects can occur as soon as 2050 if not soon corrected.
Bad….no, TERRIBLE news. Yesterday it was announced that the model previously used was for the ice melt in the Arctic was at a rate of 2.5 percent annually. But their study has revealed that the actual ice loss is at a rate of 7.8 percent annually. That means 3 times faster than the previous estimated 2050, brings us to around 2020.
“BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Arctic sea ice is melting three times faster than many scientists project, U.S. researchers reported Monday, just days ahead of the next major international report on climate change.
Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado in Boulder concluded, using actual measurements, that Arctic sea ice has declined at an average rate of about 7.8% per decade between 1953 and 2006.
By contrast, 18 computer models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N.-sponsored climate research group, estimated an average rate of decline of 2.5% per decade over the same period, the researchers said.
International delegates are meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, this week to hammer out the final wording of the third IPCC report.”
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/2007-04-30-arctic-ice-melt_N.htm
We need to start bold action very soon to stop this high paced melting and ever growing global warming. Not just that all those Polar Bears are dying and drowning. If we don’t act soon, life as we know it will be forever changed.
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