All Time Low for Arctic Sea Ice

Arctic sea ice has just hit an all time low according to the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC).

It's the sort of thing that should be a warning sign but as i write this the US republican party are meeting and honing their climate skeptic message. Obama and the democrats are opening up the arctic to exploration for oil. So matters dont look perticuarly good for a rapid political response.

In the UK Campaign Against Climate Change are planning a demo at Downing Street to highlight this 'red flag' to humanity. The demo starts at 1pm (details here).

Further Reading:

• Carbon Brief goes into the details on sea ice decline.
• BBC Article
• Guardian Article 
• NSIDC on Twitter

Other Comments:

• It seems to me that record lows in sea ice should be a huge story as they represent huge changes in the global climate which we rely on. Unfortunately it isn't a terribly glamourous story. I do appreciate groups who are doing their best to raise the profile of key climate change markers like this. This is why i have just donated to campaign against climate change and why i hope you will do the same.

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5 Minutes for UK Climate Change E-Activism?

There are always quite a few groups working on climate change campaigns here in the UK. Whilst there is no substitute for forming your own group or getting together with others in your local area their are still worthwhile opportunities to pressurise govornment via online petitions and letter writing.

 In this post i bring together a few of the biggest current online campaigns. If you computer is working ok (unlike mine) it shouldnt take long for you to sign up to these and do your good deed for the day.

1. Support Friends of the Earth's campaign for Clean British Energy.
2. Join Greenpeace International's effort to make the arctic a wildlife refuge and prevent arctic drilling.
3. Help the RSPB protect Sumatras Rainforest.
4. Work with Campaign against Climate Change to stop a second UK dash to gas,
5. Round Off your inspired if brief bout of e-activistm by joining Oxfam's GROW campaign.

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