Okay, the ice is melting in the Arctic Sea. How long will it take before it is all gone? Not in our lifetime, right?
Actually, it could. In fact, the boys with their science hats on suggest it might even happen as early as the 2030s. You expect to be alive that long, don't you? Oh, the ice freezes in the winter and is lost in the summers, you understand. So, it would just be in the summers -- say each September -- that the waters would be snowless and iceless.
The amount of ice in the winter in the Arctic has deceased by a third over the past 20 years, and the rate of melting is accelerating. Greenland is projected to lose ice at a faster rate this century than it has in 12,000 years.
Have we reached the tipping point? Are the emissions packing our skyways already so great and do they linger so long that the melting is inevitable and irreversible. Apparently so.
Hey, I was beginning to look forward to vacationing on a beach somewhere in the Arctic. But then somebody reminded me there's no land mass under all that snow and ice, so I guess the party is off. Oh well, maybe I will be able to go deep sea diving.
(Index -- Climate change info)
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