There is a decent chance that the North Pole will be free of ice by the end of the summer. I'm sure this news will be carried in many places, but the CNN site is where I found it.
The scientist who is quoted, Mark Serreze, points out that, while the North Pole is just another point on the map for scientists, its melting would have symbolic significance.
I should say so!
To all those who still think that this warming event is just part of Earth's natural cycles, I expect a polar melting will be the last straw to break their argument. Since the Earth cooled from its initial forming, the North Pole has been frozen, as far as science knows.
If we Westerners had heeded the warnings 30 years ago, we'd have lower-carbon technology now, and the rapidly expanding global marketplaces in China, Brazil and India would be using that technology instead of the fossil-fuel burning engines that got us into this mess. Good luck to us trying to put the genie back in its bottle.
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Mark Serreze is the senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.
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