Heat melts ice. Regardless of the location or exact form of that ice, be it the Arctic sea ice, or the Mer de Glace glacier in the French Alps, it melts when exposed to heat.
The constant melting and accumulation of ice masses is an ageless process. However, recent climate has shown a trend of warming, and this trend is broadly accepted to continue (and accelerate?!) into the future. (Marcott et al., 2013, IPCC 2013)
This presents us with a problem: more heat will lead to less ice.
Over the coming 3 months, I'll talk about the impacts both locally and globally, on humans, animals and our environment of this decrease in ice. Will these impacts be negative as is generally assumed? Might there be some positives on the flip side? Or maybe it's a combination of good and bad?
We will see.
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