Linking people & redesigning systems
for a healthy future
Linking people & redesigning systems
for a healthy future
A provocative new study of the record-setting Arctic thaw that's
unlocking the Northwest Passage and transforming Canada's polar
frontier has, for the first time, drawn a clear connection between
rising global carbon pollution and the retreat of sea ice.
The
study by top Norwegian climate researcher Ola Johannessen, to be
published in October by the Chinese Academy of Sciences but obtained
Friday by Canwest News Service, identified a "strengthening linkage"
between the upward trend in CO2 emissions over the past century and the
shrinking of the Arctic ice cap, which reached a historic minimum last
year and appears headed for similar decreases this summer.
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