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Glaciers and Sea Ice Endangered by Rising Temperatures
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Location:
1350 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 403, Washington, District of Columbia, 20036, United States
Contact person:
Reah Janise Kauffman
Organization:
Earth Policy Institute
Website:
http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update32.htm
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Language(s):
English
Media:
Article or paper, Website
Fax:
202.496.9325
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Specialty:
Legal Services
Phone:
202.496.9290
Last updated:
April 13, 2004
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Description:
free on website, includes data
by Janet Larsen
By 2020, the snows of Kilimanjaro may exist only in old photographs. The glaciers in Montana's Glacier National Park could disappear by 2030. And by mid-century, the Arctic Sea may be completely ice-free during summertime. As the earth's temperature has risen in recent decades, the earth's ice cover has begun to melt. And that melting is accelerating.
In both 2002 and 2003, the Northern Hemisphere registered record-low sea ice cover. New satellite data show the Arctic region warming more during the 1990s than during the 1980s, with Arctic Sea ice now melting by up to 15 percent per decade. The long-sought Northwest Passage, a dream of early explorers, could become our nightmare. The loss of Arctic Sea ice could alter ocean circulation patterns and trigger changes in global climate patterns.
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Permalink:
http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Materials/81548-311/c
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