Reply #1: Arctic ice cap melting at worrying rate, says Nasa [View All]

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The polar ice cap is melting at an alarming rate due to global warming, according to Nasa scientists, with satellite images showing the ice cap has been shrinking by 10 percent per decade over the past quarter century.

"It is happening now. We cannot afford to wait a long period of time for technological solutions," said David Rind of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. "Change is in the air -- literally," he told a press conference
here on Thursday.

By means of a special satellite launched last year to measure the thickness of the polar ice cap, Nasa has confirmed that part of the Arctic Ocean that remains frozen all year round shrank at a rate of 10% per decade since 1980, Nasa researcher Josefino Comiso said.

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