U Manitoba Researcher - Summer Arctic Ocean Sea Ice Gone By 2015 - CanWest

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WINNIPEG - The ice that has covered the Arctic basin for a million years will be gone in little more than six years because of global warming, a University of Manitoba geoscientist said.

And David Barber said that once the sea ice is gone, more humans will be attracted to the Arctic, bringing with them even more ill effects. "We'll always have ice in the winter time in the Arctic, but it will always be first-year ice," Mr. Barber said yesterday.

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Mr. Barber has said before that the Arctic basin would be free of summer sea ice sometime between 2013 and 2030. But their research about recent changes in the Arctic has allowed them to pinpoint the date even closer: "2007 was a really big drawback year -- it lost a lot," Mr. Barber said.

"In 2008, it recovered a bit, but my research shows there isn't anything to instil confidence in ... we're expecting 2009 will be another year of low ice." Mr. Barber said that's because the ice that grew back in 2008 is thin -- not the thicker multi-year ice -- so he expects it will disappear quickly.

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http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=13c570ce-0d99-4854-b73e-56eaa12567c9

[opihimoimoi]

1. It also COULD BE the triggering effect to Global Chilling...a mild ICE AGE of sorts

perhaps ice down to the Kansas Level...all year round....

[XemaSab]

2. .