This new understanding of processes on Europa would not have been possible without the foundation of the last 20 years of observations over Earth's ice sheets and floating ice shelves.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.
Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.
Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate.
Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.
Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.