A number of years in a row of warmer than average temperatures are leading the permanent Arctic Pack Ice to dip below levels ever seen. The Arctic Ice is melting faster and at a significantly increased rate, with no end in sight.

Melting Is Approaching Point Of No Return Says WWF

Montreal- A number of years in a row of warmer than average temperatures are leading the permanent Arctic Pack Ice to dip below levels ever seen. The Arctic Ice is melting faster and at a significantly increased rate, with no end in sight.

The current level of Arctic Pack Sea ice is nearly 39 percent below the average level that it was from 1979 – 2000, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The WWF has just completed a new study whose results are alarming and causes a great deal of concern.

The overall levels of Ice in the Arctic Ocean and the Greenland Ice Sheet were measured and estimated to be 4.4 million cubic metres, and 2.9 million cubic metres, respectively. The measurements were taken in September of 2007, and reveal that the state of both Ice masses is at the lowest ever recorded levels.

Experts are not only alarmed at the current state of the ice sheets, but officials and experts are beginning to question if the Ice Sheets have reached a “Tipping point,” or a level beyond which they are not likely to recover.

The Ice Sheet measurements are scheduled to be presented Thursday at the Arctic Council Meeting, which is comprised of member nations Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Canada, Sweden, Russia, Norway, and the United States.