Arctic Sea Ice Melting Area Larger Than the Area of US

UN weather agency claimed that the area of Arctic Sea ice, which even huger than the US had melted in 2012. It demonstrated that climate change was very evident. The report by UN weather agency was released at the UN climate talks which are taking place in Doha, Qatar at present. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) claimed that this Arctic sea ice melting was extreme and record-breaking which had hit the Earth in 2012.

The instances of climate change were very much evident this year because droughts ruined almost 2/3rd of United States and western Russia as well as southern Europe. On the other hand, floods swamped West Africa. Heat waves were leaving Northern Hemisphere scorching. However, what dominated over everything was that the ice cover was reaching record lowest, especially in North Pole from March to September. The area of ice melt was 11.83 million square kilometers, which is even larger than the area of US.

WMO has the concern that the rate at which ice is melting is alarming and the changes are evident in turn on the oceans and biosphere of Earth. The reason why this is happening is because of the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in atmosphere, which is reaching record high.

There is an attempt to ensure that temperature does not rise over 2°C in the preindustrial times. As of now, the temperatures have risen around 0.8°C.