The terror continues…
It’s a problem now, new study concludes
Melting sea ice and thawing permafrost is rapidly altering the Arctic environment. The changes could drive seals, polar bears and other animals toward extinction, said the report issued yesterday.
“It’s happening very fast, and . . . it’s fairly convincing that on the scale of our lifetimes very dramatic things will be happening.”
The biggest survey to date of the Arctic climate, by 250 scientists, said the accelerating melt could be a foretaste of wider disruptions from a build-up in the atmosphere of human emissions of heat-trapping gases.
