Arctic Sea Ice in Steep Decline
Weekend Edition June 6-8, 2014
The Great Melt
Arctic Sea Ice in Steep Decline
by ROBERT HUNZIKER
For years now prominent scientists have warned of the dangers of global warming and a concomitant tipping point for the Arctic. Because of abnormal heat, things are not looking good. Arctic sea ice is in a vertical free-fall. But, the melt season only just started!
This makes Obamas call for regulation of coal-burning power plants look like a fanciful ephemeral wish list, too little, too late.
Do not expect to see this story on the nightly news. This news story comes by way of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) obtained whilst comparing images of sea ice concentration on May 14, 2014 to June 2, 2014.
Confirmation of the NRL images comes from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC Boulder) reporting that ice concentration values plummeted by more than 286,000 square kilometers, an area the size of the state of Nevada (286,351 sq km), which alarmingly disappeared over a period of a day, not weeks or months, leaving glaciologists flat-footed and startled.
More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/06/arctic-sea-ice-in-steep-decline/