Climate Change and Melting Ice

If these events accomplish anything, they serve as reminders that a business-as-usual approach to energy and the environment means catastrophe for humankind and all other life forms.
Fortunately, more people are twigging on the importance of all this every day.

I believe that we are currently at a record low global sea ice level as of right now:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg
This is happening fast.