Efforts are being made to stop glaciers melting by unrolling 70-metre long by five-metre wide strips of white plastic over the ice to reflect the sun.
Like CO2, soot warms the atmosphere by absorbing heat from the sun – and it can also travel thousands of miles to settle on Arctic ice, where it accelerates melting by darkening the surface.
Yesterday, Hingis, the new poster child for the emotionally battered prodigy, was annihilated by Serena, who mixed power and force with finesse and had Hingis melting by mid-match.
Arctic sea ice has been melting by 9-14% a decade since 1979, while sea ice around Antarctica has been increasing by 1-21-2%robably due to current changes.
Experience does not beat excitement, though, or Nixon would have been president the first time around, Poppy Bush would have had a second term and President Gore would have stopped the earth from melting by now.
At the huge Quelccaya Ice Cap, which stretches across Peru, the largest glacier, Qori Kalis, is retreating at a rate 44 times as fast today as it was from 1963 to 1978, when American scientists determined it was melting by about four yards a year.
