Arctic Summer Ice Melting Faster Than Previously Thought, Scientists [View all]

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Source: Science World Report

Arctic Summer Ice Melting Faster Than Previously Thought, Scientists

SWR Staff Writer First Posted: Apr 12, 2013 07:24 PM EDT

By 2050 there will be no more Arctic summer sea ice, scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced.

In an article published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, two federal government scientists working on climate change have made a case suggesting that the frozen packs lingering through the Northern Hemisphere summer are disappearing faster than previously thought, and it will have vanished in the next decade or two.

"Major sea ice loss could come within a decade or two," wrote James Overland and Muyin Wang in their paper. However, the scientists believe that some ice might remain here and there near Greenland and Canada's Arctic islands.

The researchers came at this gloomy conclusion after studying the results of three methods of predicting the sea-ice level trends in the Northern Ocean.

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