Eek.

Ummm, does this worry anyone else?

From the link, "If the shrinking trend continues at its present rate of 8 per cent a year, there could be no ice at all at the pole as early as the summer of 2060."

Not an isolated report either...the new evidence the report is based on is also being reported by the New York Times and CTV.

Apparently my plan to move to Alaska to bask in the wonderful coldness of it all may be short-lived. Well, I'll be almost 90 by then so probably not an issue for me. What I'm most worried about though is what the effect of all that 'new' water will be over the rest of the planet. That ice water floats sometimes hundreds of feet over the ocean surface for an area of some 2 million square kilometers. That's a lot of water.

It brings to mind that debate over the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" which involved the rapid onset of an ice age because of the sudden increase in melting of the ice over the north pole. Everyone agrees that the events depicted occurred far too quickly (like decades fast), but many scientists are starting to believe that those events could actually happen, just over the course of 30-100 years.

What was most interesting about the release of that movie was that the head of Nasa at the time forbid all of the agency's climatologists from talking to reporters about the potential truth behind the movie's pseudo-science.

I just say: "Eek."