Canada’s Arctic shows accelerated melting - 27 Apr 2010  
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A 50-year study of the ice cap on Devon Island in Canada’s High Arctic has revealed ice growth that alternated with melting prior to 1985. However, since that time the ice volume and area have both been in steady decline.
According lead study author Dr. Sarah Boon of Canada’s University of Lethbridge, this past decade also saw four particularly warm summers that have accelerated the melting, with the now-exposed soil and gravel on the ice cap’s edges absorbing more heat and speeding the melt rate even more.

In addition, melt water forming beneath the ice also causes entire chunks to slide more quickly into the ocean, which in turn raises sea levels, one of the major concerns with melting glaciers around the globe.
Our heartfelt thanks Dr. Boon and dedicated Canadian colleagues for sharing these factual observations, despite their disturbing nature.

May we all respond to the urgent situation by adopting sustaining lifestyles to save our planet.
In a June 2009 video message, Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke of this predicament and how to solve the concerns of the melting Arctic.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: The Arctic, or North Pole, may be ice-free by 2012, 70 years ahead of IPCC estimations. Without the protective ice to reflect sunlight, 90 percent of the sun's heat can enter the open water, thus accelerating global warming. Now, many of these areas where we are seeing such devastating effects of climate change, such as Arctic melt, are all directly related to the Earth’s temperature increasing.
So, we must cool the planet, first and foremost.To cool the planet most quickly, we have to stop consuming meat in order to stop the livestock raising industry.

If everyone in the world would adopt this simple but most powerful practice of an animal-free diet, then we could reverse the effect of global warming in no time.

http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/04/14/decades-of-research-show-massive-arctic-ice-cap-
is-shrinking.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/04/melting-of-canadian-arctic-ice-sheet-accelerating-study-
finds.html