Riddle of the Ice
Riddle of the Ice – Review
While researching for an environmental book, we had the great good fortune to come across Myron Arm’s astonishing tale of the mysteries of sea and ice. In lovely, easy prose, Arms shows the reader to the source of one of nature’s greatest happenings: the continuous collision between the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt and the mad southerly movement of Arctic ice. This epic rumination makes it incontestably clear that much of Earth’s climate is driven by the two frozen amounts of ice at the Northern and Southern poles–both of which are slowly melting at an absolutely astonishing rate. For me, the implicit question Arms goes us with is, "So what happens when, within a hundred years or so, the ice sheets have completely melted so much that they can no longer counterbalance our furiously warming Earth?" As a planet, we superior figure that out very soon.