Dramatic lessons from the Arctic big melt of 2012: It's already too hot, as Greenland melt record is smashed

Click here to access article by David Spratt from Climate Code Red (Australia). 

While suffering through this summer's heat, you may not want to know this. However, global warming is also having a major impact on arctic ice and threatens to reach tipping points, if it hasn't already. He provides lots of graphs to illustrate what's happening.

The Arctic, the part of the world where global warming is greatest and where some of the most dramatic impacts are being witnessed, is the canary in climate warming coal mine.