Just How Bad Was this Summer's Arctic Melting? [1]
by Jeremy Elton Jacquot, Los Angeles [2] on 10.12.07 That bad. More about the report's executive summary after the jump.According to Carbon Equity's latest report [3], the Arctic ice caps are facing a much grimmer future than that originally projected by the IPCC - which has been accused of watering down its recommendations due to political pressure. Some of the more salient findings include:
• Climate change impacts are happening at lower temperature increases and more quickly than projected.
• The Arctic's floating sea ice is headed towards rapid summer disintegration as early as 2013, a century ahead of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections.
• The rapid loss of Arctic sea ice will speed up the disintegration of the Greenland ice sheet, and a rise in sea levels by even as much as 5 metres by the turn of this century is possible.
• The Arctic's floating sea ice is headed towards rapid summer disintegration as early as 2013, a century ahead of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections.
• The rapid loss of Arctic sea ice will speed up the disintegration of the Greenland ice sheet, and a rise in sea levels by even as much as 5 metres by the turn of this century is possible.
Via ::The Age: The time has come for drastic action [4] (newspaper)
See also: ::No More Arctic Ice Cap by 2030? [5], ::Al Gore Warns of Crises Facing World's Oceans [6]
