1, Scientists are particularly interested in observing the thawing and freezing of the polar icecaps in order to assess changes in sea level.

2, Global warming is melting the Arctic ice-cap.

3, Soaring carbon emissions are already causing ice-cap melting and threaten to trigger global flooding, widespread species loss and major disruptions of weather patterns in the near future.

4, Ice-cap melting, rises in sea levels, flooding, cyclones and storms will be an inevitable consequence.

5, Without activists, the forests would all be gone, the air fouled, the oceans dead, the glaciers and ice-cap and permafrost melted into a brown sea.