Sentences with phrase «completely ice free this summer»
Instead, a rather casual article in the Independent showed the latest thickness data and that quoted Mark Serreze as saying that the area around the North Pole had 50/50 odds of being completely ice free this summer, has taken off across the media.
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Next summer is expected to be the third in a row with completely ice - free waters above the Arctic Circle, and tourism in the once - remote region is thriving.
By the end of the present century, the Arctic Ocean seems likely to be completely free of sea ice, especially in summer.
This is also why the Arctic Ocean could be completely ice - free for at least part of the summer within a few decades.
While not completely ice - free it was considered open for several weeks this summer, which is happening more often and for longer with Arctic warming.
A scenario with this rate of ice reduction suggests that the Arctic Sea will be completely ice - free in summer time in less than two decades.
Back in 2009, Al Gore boldly declared that «the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice - free within the next five to seven years.»
Experts believe that the North Pole will be completely ice - free in the summer months by as early as 2030, while others say that this won't happen until 2050 or 2080.
Indeed, Wieslaw Maslowski, an oceanographer from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, who was not on the Amundsen, has predicted that the Arctic could be completely ice - free in the summer as early as 2013.
The rhetoric and predictions of global warming acolytes have been every bit as confusing in the United States, with former vice president and carbon - credit entrepreneur Al Gore telling an audience in a 2009 speech that «the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice - free within the next five to seven years.»
By the end of the present century, the Arctic Ocean seems likely to be completely free of sea ice, especially in summer.
Al Gore, unfazed by his climate conviction, went on to claim «the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months will be completely ice - free within the next five to seven years,»