2013 - No summer ice in the arctic:
This summer, the ice sheet in the arctic decreased to its lowest size ever. Beating the previous record, set in 2005, by an area five times the size of the UK.
A study by Professor Wieslaw Maslowski and presented to the American Geophysical Union indicated that the northern polar waters could be ice-free by the summer of 2013.
Leaving aside the ecological disaster - the total loss of natural habitat for polar bears - that's a substantial amount of fresh water that will be added to the north Atlantic current.
This summer, the ice sheet in the arctic decreased to its lowest size ever. Beating the previous record, set in 2005, by an area five times the size of the UK.
A study by Professor Wieslaw Maslowski and presented to the American Geophysical Union indicated that the northern polar waters could be ice-free by the summer of 2013.
Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007. So given that fact, you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative.
-- Professor Wieslaw Maslowski
Leaving aside the ecological disaster - the total loss of natural habitat for polar bears - that's a substantial amount of fresh water that will be added to the north Atlantic current.
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