To commemorate the World Environment Day on June 5, 2007: and LAUNCHES OF GLOBAL OUTLOOK FOR ICE AND SNOW report, UNEP/GRID Sioux Falls, has released a set of PowerPoint presentations entitled Melting Glaciers.   Since 1960, glaciers around the world have lost an estimated 8 000 cubic kilometres of ice. There is now a consensus among many scientists that climate change is the “biggest crisis in today’s world” with the potential to cause catastrophic damage. This collection of visually compelling slides of melting ice, showing changes measured using satellite observations, is startling evidence of impact of rapidly changing climate.

To download the presentation go to: http://www.na.unep.net/   and click on “Recent Releases”

The presentation slides can also be downloaded from: ftp://na.unep.net/UNEP/TGiri/

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Tejaswi Giri (Ms.)
UNEP/GRID
USGS/EROS Data Center
47914 252nd Street
Sioux Falls, SD, 57198, USA
Tel: 1 (605) 594-2782
Fax: 1 (605) 594-6119
Email:  tgiri at usgs.gov