Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reminded the world back in February that global warming is indeed caused by us, humans. More than a research finding, the report is a wake-up call to all of us.

And if that didn't do the trick, here's another scary fact: National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) now reports that the Arctic Sea ice is melting faster than predicted. IPCC predicted that there's a very high possibility that the Arctic will be free of ice within the time frame of 2050 to 2100.

This was based from data gathered from climate simulation models. Accordingly, the average ice cover loss per decade from 1953 to 2006 is around 2.6% while the highest was at 5.4%.

Study member Julienne Stroeve, and part of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, mentioned that it was recently found out that these percentages are conservative estimates of the future Arctic change. More reliable satellite instruments recorded the ice decline from the same period at around 7.8% per decade.

Another study member, NCAR's Marika Holland, put it best as she said, "While the ice is disappearing faster than the computer models indicate, both observations and the models point in the same direction: The Arctic is losing ice at an increasingly rapid pace and the impact of greenhouse gases is growing."