Saturday, August 2, 2008

Arctic climate is changing fast and will continue to happen fast

This isn't Global warming, just the artic climate is reversing and it is one way process. The ice sheets are breaking apart. Artic environment is no longer the process of Ice growing, to the contratary it is ice breaking.

July 30, 2008—A chunk of ice spreading across 7 square miles (18 square kilometers) has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists say.
The sheet broke away last week from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf off the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada's far north. Large ice segments—including this 1.5-square-mile (4-square-kilometer) chunk, above—were seen drifting near the ice shelf. A crack in the shelf was first spotted in 2002 and a survey this spring found a network of fissures.

Gary Stern, co-leader of an international research program on sea ice, said it's the same story all around the Arctic.
Speaking from the Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen in Canada's north, Stern said he hadn't seen any ice in weeks.
"Nobody on the ship is surprised anymore," Stern said. "We've been trying to get the word out for the longest time now that things are happening fast and they're going to continue to happen fast."

Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080730-arctic-photo-AP.html

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