has to be mobilized, in order to mobilize the resources.
Let me show you these slides here.
I thought I would start with the logo. What's missing here,
of course, is the North Polar ice cap.
Greenland remains. Twenty-eight years ago, this is what the
polar ice cap -- the North Polar ice cap -- looked like
at the end of the summer, at the fall equinox.
This last fall, I went to the Snow and Ice Data Center
in Boulder, Colorado, and talked to the researchers
here in Monterey at the Naval Postgraduate Laboratory.
This is what's happened in the last 28 years.
To put it in perspective, 2005 was the previous record.
Here's what happened last fall
that has really unnerved the researchers.
The North Polar ice cap is the same size geographically --
doesn't look quite the same size --
but it is exactly the same size as the United States,
minus an area roughly equal to the state of Arizona.
The amount that disappeared in 2005
was equivalent to everything east of the Mississippi.
The extra amount that disappeared last fall