What, Me Worry?
Read the ads of many large corporations, listen to the speeches of many politicians, and you conclude that global warming is only a figment of tree huggers' imaginations. Here's a bit of hard data. We'll just pass it on to you. You can do with it what you will. The graph shows the number of square miles of Arctic ice, that is, the ice surrounding the North Pole, measured in satellite photographs over a four-month period each summer since 1979. The net average loss in ice is an area larger than Texas, from roughly 2.8 million square miles to 2.4 million square miles. The graph comes from an article in the New York Times, summarizing the research. Norwegian scientists extrapolate and foresee an ice-free North Pole by 2050. You can read the article here.
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