Are conditions in the Artic different today than they were 100 years ago?
The Arctic is experiencing a vast climate change and conditions are much different. The summer sea ice pack has retreated by about 25%. We’re on the verge of opening up the famed Northwest Passage that Arctic explorers sought for hundreds of years. This is affecting the villages of the people that live in the Arctic. These conditions are affecting the Inuit and the people who live in Alaska. For instance, as the tundra melts things crumble into the tundra. Eventually the biggest threat is that the major ice sheets in the Arctic – such as the Greenland ice sheet – will start to disintegrate due to global warming, causing a potentially catastrophic rise in global sea level. There’s still time to stop that kind of outcome, but not all that much.
