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Grim note washes up in new UN report

-- Adam -- 02/02/2007

Sea levels, according to the new IPCC report, are rising significantly faster than what most scientists were expecting. Glaciers and ice caps worldwide are seeing "widespread decreases". Specifically, in Antartica and Greenland, the report notes "increased ice sheet mass loss has often followed thinning, reduction or loss of ice shelves or loss of floating glacier tongues." Also, surface water has absorbed over 80% of heat increases since 1961, meaning thermal expansion of the oceans has played a major role in the rate of sea-level rise. This is ominous news for all Americans and the rest of the world. Hopefully presidential candidates will take this update from scientists as a call to act urgently in advancing real solutions to climate change.