Arctic Climate Tipping Point Happening Now! Sea Ice in Its “Death Spiral” Scientist Claims

arctic sea ice extent on 8/26/2008 image
image: NSIDC

After yesterday’s ominous news that North American permafrost (and presumably European and Asian, as well) stores 60% more greenhouse gases than we thought, here’s another siren announcing that we are rushing full speed ahead towards a climatic tipping point:

Scientists are reporting that the extent of sea ice in the Arctic is at the second lowest point on record. Currently ice covers 2.03 million square miles; last year's sea ice coverage, 1.59 million square miles, set the record. In the past ten years Arctic s...