Sometimes a piece of information comes along that stops you in your tracks. These items are usually not featured on the news, and if they make it into the daily newspaper, it's on page A26. This item will make future historians (if any) wonder whether we were all asleep and dreaming or way through life. "Scientists say the arctic ice cap has been disappearing at an average rate of 14,000 square miles a year since 1978." This disappearance has been linked to atmospheric changes resulting from increased emissions of "greenhouse gases, so called because they trap heat in the atmosphere the same way heat is trapped when sunlight passes through the glass of a greenhouse." For more on this topic, go to www.pughclimate.org Back to OSG News April 2000 Table of Contents Back to OSG News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by Operational Studies Group. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com