Watch the Climate Change projections
We found these animations on the Uk Met Office site and thought it makes a good graphical representation of how the planet is heating up, and the rate of melt ice. The information is based Met Office's climate change research.
Climate change results from the Met Office Hadley Centre
Surface
temperature animation Sea-ice
animation
(Flash, 2.7 Mb)
(Flash,
1.2 Mb)
Read more about the research at the Hadley centre
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/models/modeldata.html