A revised Polar Code should also regulate "black carbon" emissions from ships - which are known to accelerate ice melt and climate change - and much more stringently regulate ships unprepared for icy, stormy waters thousands of miles from aid.
Using satellite observations of ice surface melt and climate model simulations, researchers projected two scenarios through the year 2100: One with high levels of greenhouse gas emissions that are similar to or more intense than current levels, and another scenario with "intermediate," or reduced, emissions levels.
If data made a difference, graphs of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide and earth surface temperatures would melt a climate-change-denier's denial like greenhouse gases are melting Greenland.
The study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, was based on satellite observations of ice surface melting and climate simulations up to the year 2100.
"Ice-bergs are melting, the climate is warming up, nobody should be cold-hearted.
Another is that land ice the world over is starting to melt as the climate grows warmer, dumping extra water into the ocean.
When the glaciers began to melt and the climate to improve, several groups learned how to grow crops and domesticate animals.
As someone who has never lived north of the 50th parallel, my mental image of Canada's Arctic is too often viewed from space cobbled together from NASA images of sea ice melt caused by climate change.
If the mass balance of a significant portion of the accumulation zone of the glacier is negative, it is in disequilibrium with the climate and will melt away without a colder climate and or an increase in frozen precipitation.
As the great stores of water at our poles continue to melt from human-caused climate change, it is a simple fact that our ocean levels will rise.
