WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.S. ice expert said on Tuesday. This means the ocean at the top of the world could be free or nearly free of summer ice by 2020, three decades sooner than the global panel's gloomiest forecast of 2050.
No ice on the Arctic Ocean during summer would be a major spur to global warming, said Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Center in Colorado. Read more here.
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How is the Antartic ice cap doing? Just curious.
I went to a symposium over the winter. The icecaps are melting there as well. Put this link into your broswer:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4228411.stm
The story is from 2005. -ERIC
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