Intensive Care ... Arctic Temperatures Being in the Highest Since 1880

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COLORADO - Global warming continues to harvest the result. Recent reports say that the Arctic temperatures in the last six years has been at its highest level since measurements began in 1880, and continues to increase. Ice in Greenland and the rest of the Arctic melting faster than previously projected and could raise global sea levels as high as 1.6 meters by 2100, says a new study.
Even in summer the next 40 years, the institute predicted, the North Pole will be ice-free.
Research released on Tuesday by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (Amap) said there was "an urgent need for a greater" in the fight against global warming as record temperatures have caused the rate of increase in the melting of ice at the poles.

Amap report said rising water levels will not only directly threaten low-lying coastal areas like Florida and Bangladesh, but also will have an impact on the islands and cities ranging from London to Shanghai. The report said it also would increase the cost of rebuilding the tsunami barriers in Japan.
"Six years (until 2010) was the warmest period ever recorded in the Arctic," the report said.
The so-called "feedback mechanism" continues to grow. One mechanism involves the ocean absorbs more heat as a result of not covered by ice. This effect has been predicted by scientists before.
It is projected to fall and winter in the region with an average temperature rise of about 2.8 to 6.1 degrees Celsius by 2080, even if greenhouse gas emissions are lower than decades ago.
"The changes observed in sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, on the mass of the Greenland ice sheet and ice in the Arctic and glaciers during the last 10 years is dramatic and represents a clear departure from the long-term patterns," according to a press release it.
"The changes that emerged in the Arctic is very strong, even dramatic," said Mark Serreze, director of the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado