A Planetary SOS

The news about the arctic polar ice is staggering to me. My own view of climate change has shifted over the years I've been writing this blog from mild skepticism to something much more like active concern. It's the feedback loops of global warming that have emerged in these years as something we didn't fully expect and something that could accelerate the problem dramatically. Here's an alarming report:

From their camp on Melville Island last July, where they recorded air temperatures over 20