Climate change leads to arctic melt - World & Nation - Guilfordian - Guilford College

"The Arctic keeps surprising us," said Director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Mark Serreze, according to NPR, "The point is we're losing the sea ice faster than we think we ought to be. And this is causing us to revise some of our estimates.
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"The rate of sea-ice loss we're observing is much worse than even the most pessimistic projections led us to believe," said Deputy Campaigns Director with Greenpeace USA Carroll Muffett, according to Worldwatch Institute.
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"I would say what we're experiencing now is softer ice," said Eddy Carmack, leading oceanographer with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, according to NPR. "It's not as formidable, it's yielding to the pressure of the ship, it's breaking easily. And that's because the ice itself is warmer."
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"It's unfortunate that such dramatic changes in the environment aren't shocking people into waking up and changing how we live," said Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Joe Cole in an email.

The Reference Frame: Does the melting Petermann glacier render you speechless?

It's sad. It's the rather pessimistic evolution of the mankind that renders me speechless. What renders me speechless is that most people are no longer curious about Nature for its own sake: they only watch it so that they may abuse it for their primitive and petty political and financial interests.

And that's the memo.