Writing about: ESA – Observing the Earth – Understanding Our Planet – Arctic summer ice anomaly shocks scientists

Satellite images acquired from 23 to 25 August 2006 have shown for the first time dramatic openings – over a geographic extent larger than the size of the British Isles – in the Arctic’s perennial sea ice pack north of Svalbard, and extending into the Russian Arctic all the way to the North Pole.

I mostly feel extremely sad when I read this kind of thing – we’re rushing headlong into a catastrophe and we can see it coming but we still aren’t doing anything about it.

This is going to change the world, not in our grandchildrens’ lifetimes, nor our childrens’, but in ours. And no amount of oil-money induced denial is going to do a damn thing about it.

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