Waterworld

Posted on May 20, 2011 at 7:43 pm by Bob Cesca

The Arctic Sea Ice Blog has been tracking the diminishing ice shelf since 1979. Here’s the bad, bad, bad news in chart form:

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You’re reading it correctly. At this rate, there will not be a north polar ice cap — none — by 2030. In our lifetime.

(via Kevin Drum)

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  • dildenusa

    I’m having a hard time wrapping my brain around the numbers in this chart but then I found this, http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/new-light-shed-on-north-pole-ice-trends/

    I think the numbers on the left are millions of square kilometers. That’s what was confusing.

  • http://twitter.com/bubblegenius Bubble Genius

    Hmmm. Having second thoughts about buying oceanfront property in Hawaii. Or, rather, I’ll plan ahead and buy some mountain property which will eventually become oceanfront property by the time I retire.

  • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

    I’ve been looking for a while now for a map that would show just how much land would be covered by the increase in sea level. Does anyone know of a map online that projects this 100, 200, etc years into the future?