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79 degrees North
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NP! ID: 1633239
Title: 79 degrees North
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Created: Sat, 09/06/2008 - 3:31am
Modified: Sat, 09/06/2008 - 3:31am
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at 03:44 on September 6th, 2008
This shot was taken at just below 80degrees north. You can't go much further. It is here that the effects of global warming are really being seen and felt. August was unseasonably cold this year, with snow on Nordauslandet, the island closest to this. Nordauslandet is officially a polar desert! And yet we have still seen massive glacial retreats, and the wrong type of records are still being broken. Second largest summer ice melt in History.
In February a French team reported that we could be out of summer ice in the Arctic by 2015. I asked at the world famous Scott Polar Institute, part of Cambridge University in the UK, if this was plausible. They thought not, until a US report came up with similar conclusions in the early summer.Things are moving really fast in the Arctic. Is our understanding keeping up? All the while politicians play their games and do nothing.