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Global Warming is Causing Not only Arctic Ocean loss of sea ice, but a World Wide Loss in Sea Ice, Read the articles below about the Polar Ice Loss on the North Pole, Arctic Ocean and Opening of the Northwest Passage.
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A letter from one of our viewers. Good for you, Jeff! Please do continue your work on
climate change because at some point - which will be sooner rather than
later - we will point at all of them, look them in the eye and say, "SEE, I
TOLD YOU SO!" But by then it will have been too late to reverse it. We are having changes in our worlds environment and we are seeing them right now. These links above will show you exactly what is happening and how it will effect you depends on where you live. But it will affect you and you will notice a huge change wherever you live. You will not be able to escape because it's happening world wide. This letter came to me from an anonymous reader who read the article on the North Pole Expedition Travel page where I now say that it is too dangerous for tourist to go to the North Pole, and it is. C. Jeff Dyrek, North Pole Expedition Guide and North Pole Expedition Leader. 9-11-2008 |
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Arctic becomes an island as ice melts
By Auslan Cramb
Last Updated:
4:01pm BST 31/08/2008
The
North Pole has become an island for the first time in human
history as climate change
has made it possible to circumnavigate the Arctic ice cap.
The historic development was revealed by
satellite images
taken last week showing that both the north-west and north-east passages
have been opened by melting ice.
Prof Mark Serreze, a sea ice specialist at the
National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in the US said the images
suggested the Arctic may have entered a "death spiral" caused by
global warming.
Shipping companies are already planning to exploit the
first simultaneous opening of the routes since the beginning of the
last Ice Age 125,000 years ago. The Beluga Group in Germany says
it will send the first ship through the north-east passage, around
Russia, next year, cutting 4,000 miles off the voyage from Germany to
Japan.
Meanwhile,
Stephen Harper,
Canada's Prime Minister, has announced that ships entering the
north-west passage should first report to his government. The routes
have previously opened at different times, with the western route
opening last year, and the eastern route opening in 2005.
The satellite images gathered by NASA show that the
north-west passage opened last weekend and the final blockage on the
east side of the ice cap, an area of sea ice stretching to Siberia,
dissolved a few days later.
Last year the extent of sea ice in the Arctic reached
a record low that could be surpassed in the next few weeks, with some
scientists warning that the ice cap could soon vanish altogether during
summer.
Four weeks ago tourists had to be evacuated from a
park on
Baffin Island because of flooding caused by
melting glaciers, and polar bears have been spotted off
Alaska trying to
swim hundreds of miles to the retreating ice cap.
Measurements on August 26 showed an ice cap of just
over two million square miles, confirming the second biggest ice cap
melt since records began. New of the opening of the passages emerged as
the British explorer and adventurer
Lewis Gordon Pugh began a kayak expedition to the North Pole
aimed at drawing attention to the dramatic impact of melting polar ice.
"I want to bring home to world leaders, on this
expedition, the reality of what is now happening here in the Arctic,"
said the 38-year-old environmentalist in his blog.
"The rate of change is clearly faster than nearly all
the models predict, which has huge implications for climate change and
how to tackle it."
Meanwhile Prof James Lovelock, of the University of
Oxford, has claimed "planet-scale engineering of the climate" may have
to be attempted to counter global warming.
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can do.
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Read the Webmasters Story, "Why God Sent Me to the North Pole." You will Be Surprised.
Click her to see how I have to live and what it looks like to be
a disabled Vet.
