No Icing on the Top | Green Energy News

September 25, 2005 – Vol.10 No.27

NO ICING ON THE TOP.

Sometime in this century, or possibly next, children may no longer be able to say that Santa Claus has workshops at the North Pole. Unless of course those workshops are on barges.

Scientific data revealed this week that Arctic ice is shrinking rapidly and should be a dire warning for people and governments to act quickly on global warming. Yet so far there’s nothing.

But here’s a thought that might sway peoples minds.

The most dramatic changes from global warming will be near the poles - no Arctic ice cap for part of the year, for instance.

But the most damage - the expense, the death, the misery, the conflicts - will be in warmer latitudes where most of the world’s population lives. (We’ve seen what the flooding of a major city can do.) Comparatively few live in the coldest latitudes.

For the full report on the decline in sea ice visit the National Snow and Ice Data Center at http://nsidc.org/ .