Arctic Sea Ice Melting Away

Money in the banks is not all that's melted away.

Not so swiftly, the arctic ice is shrinking, but if a tipping point is reached the ice will soon catch up with the money. The financial crisis has diverted attention from the global warming crisis.

A University College London team has evidence that the arctic ice thickness last winter reduced by 26 cm on average below the mean of the previous five years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7692963.stm

The thickness measurements were made using a radar altimeter on the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite.

Not only is the ice thinning, it is also covering a reducing area of the arctic sea. So the overall volume of ice is shrinking.