Arctic ice melt doesn`t boost sea levels, so do we care?
(WorldNews Environment)

PARIS: US government scientists reported Monday that the Arctic Ocean's floating ice cover has shrivelled to its second lowest extent since satellite records began in 1979. Until this month, only once in the last 42 years has Earth's frozen skull cap covered less than four million square kilometres (1.5 million square miles). The trend line is clear: sea ice extent has diminished 14 percent per decade over that period. The Arctic could see it's first ice-free summer as early as 2035, researchers reported in Nature Climate Change last month. But all that melting ice and snow does not directly boost sea levels any more than melted ice cubes make a glass of water overflow, which...