Here today, gone forever
April 9th, 2009Below are two satellite photos showing the breakup of the ice bridge pinning the Wilkins ice shelf in place. The first was taken on April 8, the second a week earlier. The photos are from the European Space Agency’s webcam from space.
It’s a cautionary tale: things that have been stable for thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years can change in an instant, the world never to be the same. When it comes to the climate change game, we’re playing for keeps, and at stake is humanity’s fate.
