Rain in the Arctic worries explorers

Amid major concerns about global warming, a three-minute rain shower hits the North Pole, proving that the Arctic is heating up.

British explorers in Canada's Far North reported that the rain shower hit the team's ice base off Ellef Rignes Island last weekend.

"It's definitely a shocker. The general feeling within the polar community is that rainfall in the high Canadian Arctic in April is a freak event," said Pen Hadow, the team's expedition director.

"Scientists would tell us that we can expect increasingly to experience these sorts of outcomes as the climate warms," he told Reuters in a telephone interview from London.

Global warming has increased the number of weather-related disasters over the past two decades.

Floods in South Asia and across the breadth of Africa and Mexico have affected lives of more than 250 million people. Melting sea ice would cause sea levels to rise, which endangers the lives of many species.

Source: PressTV.
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