The plot is from US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and shows the Arctic sea ice extent data for the melt seasons of 2007 and 2012 alongside the 1979-1999 average. 2007 was a record low year, but with about three weeks of melt season left it looks likely that 2012 will set a new and decisive record low. While individual years have a small degree of variation, overall the long term trend is quite markedly downwards.
There is a design and principle on which to earth functions.
The world needs to review its knowledge base, its functioning, in terms of energy to matter ratio that earth strives to maintain. Unless we awaken to understand the energy cycle in which we live and how earth is designed to sustain certain ratio of energy to matter, we are doomed for huge destruction. The increasing heat in the environment is creating disorder. Time earth gets to convert heat into biological mass is critically reduced. Consequently disorder is peaking stressing every ecological system and life in it. Noble Laureate James Lovelock has predicted destruction through increasing heat. We need to quickly evolve in our understanding of nature to survive on earth. Some organization or institution and the media should take up to awaken the world – read a small article and awaken and call the world’s attention – “Critical Thinking on Global Warming and Increasing Climate Catastrophes” by John Paily http://www.scribd.com/doc/101836445
For more information, see http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ which is frequently updated.
NSIDC’s calculations are echoed by those of other agencies, of which the most important is perhaps the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
See http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm which is also frequently updated.
Hundreds of pilot whales are slaughtered every year on the Faroe Islands, a small group of islands north of Europe. Faroe men go out with boats to drive these animals into a fjord using nets to block their way back to sea. The whales then beach themselves, or are pulled ashore with a blunt hook lodged in their blowholes. Once beached and defenceless these whales are killed by having their spinal cords and major blood vessels cut. It can take up to three and a half minutes for a whale to eventually die.
Google Earth Engine technology has already been used to compute the forested areas of Mexico (http://earthengine.google.org/#intro/MexicoTreeCover), identify deforestation in the Amazon (Monitoring Forests From the Ground to the Cloud) and map roadless areas of the world (http://earthengine.google.org/#intro/Roadless1km).
The 2012 theme of 
EuroNOG – an international meeting of experts responsible for the design, maintenance and development of ICT networks. The first edition was held on the 30th September 2011 in Krakow (Poland). The second edition will be organized on September 10th-11th, 2012 in Budapest (Hungary). Subsequent meetings are going to be held annually in various cities in Europe. Our main goal is to build a platform to exchange experience between the operators, ISPs and companies responsible for network implementation.
