"Arctic sea ice levels to reach record low within days
The dramatic melt expected over the next week signals that global warming is having a major impact on the polar region"
New satellite data from
NASA
confirms what research released a couple months of go said regarding the
thinning
of Arctic sea ice
. Namely that it has thinned dramatically in the past four
years and that for the first time in recorded history seasonal sea ice cover has
replaced multi-year ice as the dominant ice type. I
A map launched at the Science Museum in London has been developed using the latest peer-reviewed science from the Met Office Hadley Centre and other leading impact scientists. It shows that the land will heat up more quickly than the sea, and high latitudes, particularly the Arctic, will have larger temperature increases