Proof Climate Change Will Ruin Wonders Of The World

This is the Arctic as you have never seen it before, but may do in years to come.

- John Ingham

Shrinking glaciers, receding ice floes and melting icebergs add up to a looming climate-change disaster.

The land laid bare is part of a series of artists’ impressions of what lies in store if the world fails to act.

Other images show Victoria Falls in Africa running dry, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef bleached white by warming seas and the snow-clad Alps made green.

The predictions by the online guide to outdoor life, Outforia, were released the day after a United Nations climate change report put the world on Code Red.

The report says it is “unequivocal” that man is changing the climate. Some rapid changes already underway are “unprecedented” in hundreds of thousands of years. Without “immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions” in greenhouse gas emissions, it warned, limiting temperature rises will be “beyond reach”.