Arctic Ice Continues to Melt

This may seem like old news, but...

The New York Times' environmental journalist Andrew Revkin published a story today stating that Arctic ice melt has reached a "particularly striking" level.

According the the article, "The cap of floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean, which retreats under summer’s warmth, this year shrank more than one million square miles — or six Californias — below the average minimum area reached in recent decades, scientists reported Thursday."

This crisis is yet more evidence of climate change as a result of greenhouse gas buildup in the Earth's atmosphere.

“You can’t dismiss this as natural variability,” said Dr. Mark Sereze, a senior researcher at the National Snow and Ice Center in Boulder, Colo. “We’re starting to see the system respond to global warming.”