"A critical meltdown of ice sheets and severe sea level rise could be inevitable because of global warming, the world's scientists are preparing to warn their governments. New studies of Greenland and Antarctica have forced a UN expert panel to conclude there is a 50% chance that widespread ice sheet loss ‘may no longer be avoided' because of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere."  The Guardian, February, 2007.

"Study: ‘Runaway' melt on Antarctica, Greenland... Experts find more ‘pervasive, enduring' thinning than previously realized."  MSNBC, September 2009.