If climate experts want to melt the North Pole, they have about 60 days left to do it.
Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
The ice north of 80N is generally about 2-3 meters thick. It would require about 800 million joules of energy to melt a one square meter column of ice that thick.
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If there were no clouds, over the next 60 days the North Pole would receive about 1,500 million joules of solar energy per square meter, the vast majority of which would occur in the next 30 days. That would be enough to melt all of the two meter thick ice. The problems are that the ice is white and reflects most of the sunlight, and that it is cloudy most of the time at the North Pole in summer.
If climate experts want to melt the North Pole, they have to figure out how to make the clouds disappear. I’m sure they can do that with their climate models.
