At a recent dinner party, a few colleagues and I were discussing the problems of the world. Someone asked me what global problem was on my mind. I had just read Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and knew right away what my answer was: the melting of the Greenland ice shelf.
The Greenland ice shelf is melting at an unprecedented rate. Should it finally slide into the ocean, the world’s maps will have to be redrawn, to quote David King, a science advisor to Tony Blair. Sea levels would rise twenty feet overnight. A similar rise in sea levels would occur if a threatened ice sheet on western Antarctica breaks up.
Today I read that the ice surrounding the north pole in the Arctic Ccean could be gone in 30 years due to global warming. Some scientists say even 30 years is optimistic.
Hang on for some bumpy climate changes, folks.
“Beast Ice” will still be available, at your local grocery store.