Arctic Ice-Free Since Last Year

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Tony Heller

‘Frightening’ projection for Arctic melt

The Arctic Ocean could be free of ice in the summer as soon as 2010 or 2015 – something that hasn’t happened for more than a million years, according to a leading polar researcher.

QUEBEC — The Arctic Ocean could be free of ice in the summer as soon as 2010 or 2015 – something that hasn’t happened for more than a million years, according to a leading polar researcher.

Louis Fortier, scientific director of ArcticNet, a Canadian research network, said the sea ice is melting faster than predicted by models created by international teams of scientists, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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One Response to Arctic Ice-Free Since Last Year

  1. Dave N says:
    July 19, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    “According to these models, there will be no sea ice left in the summer in the Arctic Ocean somewhere between 2010 and 2015”

    I guess we’re still “between”. What a strange, single comment that accompanies that article.

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