4 million square kilometres and falling. That number doesn’t mean much, but when you read that ten years ago it was 5.6 million or 40% more you realise that it’s about to disappear. At a rate of 1.6 million square kilometres loss a decade it will be gone in 40 years. And it hasn’t reached its minimum this year yet.
C’mon everyone, we’ve got to get it together and stop cooking the planet. It’s no good grabbing more stuff and assuming the government or someone else is going to do the job. We all have to change. Now.
NASA Earth Observatory: Earth Indicator: 4 million
Here’s a link to the article by the BBC which picked up the story:
Arctic ice melting at ‘amazing’ speed, scientists find