GLOBAL WARMING ON THE ROCKS

It turns out the world has acted very quickly indeed, as Germany's Radio Bremen reports:

• The research aircraft "Polar 5" concluded its Arctic expedition in Canada.
• During the flight, researchers measured the current ice thickness at the North Pole and in areas that have never before been surveyed.
• The sea-ice in the surveyed areas is apparently thicker than scientists had suspected.

According to a spokesperson for Bremerhaven's Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research:

• Normally, newly formed ice measures some two meters in thickness after two years.
• In the surveyed area, scientists measured ice thickness up to four meters.

This result contradicts the warming of the sea water, according to the scientists.

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