This terrifying GIF shows how much Arctic ice has disappeared in the last 20 years - Quartz
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During his announcement of the most sweeping reform to fight climate change last week (Aug. 2), President Obama mentioned how cartographers had to change their maps to reflect global warming’s effect on our planet.
“Shrinking ice caps forced National Geographic to make the biggest change in its atlas since the Soviet Union broke apart,” he said. National Geographic confirmed the change and created a stunning GIF that shows the rapid reduction of the Arctic ice cap, drawn from their atlases between 1994 and 2014. (The image above is used with National Geographic’s permission.)