Researchers Flee Melting Arctic Ice Floe

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MOSCOW (AP) - Russian scientists are evacuating a research station built on an Arctic ice floe because global warming has melted the ice to a fraction of its original size, a spokesman said.

The North Pole-35 station, where 21 researchers and two dogs live in huts, will be taken off the floe in the western Arctic Ocean this week instead of in late August as originally planned, said Sergei Balyasnikov of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St. Petersburg.

The research crew landed in early September on the 1.2- by 2.5-mile floe near the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. During its westward drift of more than 1,550 miles, the floe shrank to just 1,000 by 2,000 feet.

"The evacuation is ahead of schedule because of global warming," Balyasnikov said.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/080714-ap-ice-floe.html

[opihimoimoi]

1. Don't we need to do something...soon...? McNemic has not mentioned one word re how to solve...

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2. Hope somebody warned them to not attempt landfall at Iceland.

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3. Evacuation of our planet won't be far behind.