Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Pictures from a recent expedition to the North Pole show the dramatic loss in sea ice during the summer.
The photos clearly underline how several recent climate studies, predicting ice-free Arctic summers by 2035, is not a theoretical scenario but rather an unavoidable fact.
The expedition ship Polarstern sailed from the northern Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard to the North Pole this week.
“I’m very surprised to see how soft and easy to traverse the ice up to 88° North is this year, having thawed to the point of being thin and porous,” said Captain Thomas Wunderlich.
“Even after passing 88° North we mostly maintained a speed of 5-7 knots; I’ve never seen that so far north,” the Polarstern captain said.
He added: “The current situation is historic.
This photo was taken at the North Pole.
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