Ice-caps? I think Grandad told me about them.

Recent reports from the Arctic have described this year's record sea-ice minimum.

Now we have reports detailing just how far this has gone.

No doubt there will be the usual nay-sayers claiming this is all a fix by anti-American Green luddites.
Well, here's a little news for them: Dr. Don Perovich, of the US Army, is among those researchers, and the papers were presented at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Some of the bad news:

Twenty-three per cent.

That's a loss of 85%.

Eighty-five per cent. In one year.

And it's going to get worse.

Some attendees suggested that the Arctic ice-cap might disappear entirely in the summer by 2013.

There's more. High-altitude Greenland snow loss at record levels; sub-surface water temperatures at record levels. Expect the price of fish to increase rapidly; because without an Arctic icecap, the circulation of ocean waters in the Atlantic and Pacific is going to change. And that means serious climate changes, because ocean water circulation is a very large part of the climate system.

I have no idea what this means for global sea levels, except that if I lived in Miami I'd be moving out.

Meanwhile, America, Canada and Japan have succeeded in getting fixed emission targets dropped from the Bali consensus. Somebody's not paying attention.

New Years resolution , buy a boat

A lot of somebody's aren't paying attention; and quite frankly, it's scaring the living crap out of me.

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming....

But yeah, it seems like people in general tend to be oblivious to things like this, and some people in charge just don't seem to care.

It makes me wish I was like Dory.

Wait, what makes you wish you were like Dory?

Go live under the sea! That's your solution to everything, Homer. Well it ain't gonna happen!

Gah.

I'm not so worried about the rising sea levels as the increase in previously frozen organisms,bacteria that will start multiplying.

Hooper drives the boat!

"We're gonna need a bigger boat!"

Hat-tip: llouys