World transport and freight companies have been dreaming of this for a long time. Now it will become a reality within ten years (without a doubt) according to Arctic explorer and ice expert Pen Hadow. Hadow is just finishing a three month expedition to gather statistics on ice-depth and age. The results are worse than had been expected.
“The future is here,” says Hadow, and the situation can no longer be reversed. The Arctic ice-caps are comprised almost exclusively of first-year ice “considered too thin to survive the next summer’s ice melt.” The subsequent climate change could be drastic, as we’ve all been hearing, and even Hadow’s team believe that the loss of the Arctic ice-caps could have dire effects on one-fourth of the planet’s population.
Delicious this
7:54 pm UTC on November 6th, 2009
Well……I’m sure Pen knows a lot about ice. His expedition set out to prove the ice was thinning. They stopped the expedition because it was too cold.
Weird that.
The ice is too thin, but the temperatures were too cold.
Hmmmmm. Odd that the data collected is not going to be used by the NSIDC.
1:22 pm UTC on January 16th, 2010
CET, if you don’t know the difference between the weather and climate……………..
well I guess you have a lot of company. Doesn’t change the facts though.
6:12 pm UTC on March 21st, 2010
We (humans) used to think the world was flat and were certain of that “fact”. We also thought the atom was the smallest particle, that we were at the center of the universe; we still can’t decide if the universe is expanding or contracting (consensus).
Why would we whole-heartedly believe that the world is going to end, results are disastrous or whatever else you’re puking out of your blog just because some guy went to go look at the ice?
Yeah, so it’s melting…so what? We put particles in the atmosphere during the industrial revolution which blocked out the sun and created a cooling trend. At the same time were damaging the ozone layer. Then we found out what we were doing was wrong so we scaled back polluting but didn’t “fix” the ozone so now more heat can enter the earths atmosphere. Now it’s getting warmer and melting all the ice. Either we, or the earth, will balance things out again but there’s nothing you or I individually can do about it.
YES we can recycle blah blah blah. Without everyone doing it an individuals effort is pointless. You need to sell people on the fact then they will follow directions. But you didn’t do that, you merely reported on it without connecting the dots, without suggesting the personal impact.
I’m already poor and have to fend for myself in the world. How does some melting ice matter at all if I’m already swimming up stream in life?
11:46 am UTC on June 12th, 2010
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11:18 am UTC on August 9th, 2010
ohh god. :)). why…why…why
7:04 am UTC on August 26th, 2010
thanks for keeping me up to date on this subject.
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5:10 pm UTC on August 26th, 2010
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