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Newly declassified images have been released showing the devastating impact of global warming in Alaska.
The graphic photographs, released last week by the American military, show huge swathes of summer ice cover have disappeared from the Chukchi Sea.
The photos were kept strictly secret by the Washington administration under George W Bush and were declassified by the White House last week.
Changing face of the world: Declassified satellite images show the Chukchi Sea off the the port of Barrow in Alaska in July 2006 (left) and July 2007
'Our primary focus is maintaining the continuity of climate observations, and those are at great risk right now because we don't have the resources to have satellites at the ready and taking the kinds of information that we need,' said Lubchenco, who was appointed by Obama. 'We are playing catch-up.'
Newly declassified images have been released showing the devastating impact of global warming in Alaska.
The graphic photographs, released last week by the American military, show huge swathes of summer ice cover have disappeared from the Chukchi Sea.
The photos were kept strictly secret by the Washington administration under George W Bush and were declassified by the White House last week.
Changing face of the world: Declassified satellite images show the Chukchi Sea off the the port of Barrow in Alaska in July 2006 (left) and July 2007
'Our primary focus is maintaining the continuity of climate observations, and those are at great risk right now because we don't have the resources to have satellites at the ready and taking the kinds of information that we need,' said Lubchenco, who was appointed by Obama. 'We are playing catch-up.'
- Jim