From the site: ” In Arctic Meltdown, Richard Hollingham joins Gary Comer on one of his expeditions through the north. Accompanied by oceanographers, climatologists and ecologists he discovers why the Arctic is so vulnerable to climate change and what the implications of this meltdown maybe. “

Listen to the program at BBC Radio 4
TPE Link - Climate Change: Global Warming

Image: Retreating Arctic ice, 1979-2003, based on data collected by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Special Sensor Microwave Imager Courtesy NASA (Source)