Interesting Facts

According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the Arctic ice cap is thinner than ever. On the other side of the world, an ice bridge linking a shelf of ice the size of Jamaica to two islands in Antarctica has snapped. Scientists say the collapse could mean the Wilkins Ice Shelf is on the brink of breaking away, and provides further evidence of rapid change in the region. (Recent satellite observations indicates that sea ice cover continues to shrink due to global warming.)

According to Robert Penn, co-author of The Wrong Kind of Snow. In 1673 Dover and Calais were joined by ice. (Between 1350 and 1850 in the UK, there was a Little Ice Age. Freezing winters were a fact of life and the freezing of the River Thames in London in 1684 led to that year's Great Frost Fair, which was held on the River itself. But there's no way the health and safety fun police would allow it now.)