Sentences with phrase «ice free summer»

My guess is 40 years after the first ice free Summer (with a range of 30 - 50 years).

This is also apparent in Wang & Overland's 2009 study «A sea ice free summer Arctic within 30 years?»

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.

So, ice free summers by 2013?

as you can see both show no death spiral, nor is the arctic going to be ice free this summer as opined back in 2007 by some of their ilk

In the Arctic, while this summer may not set a record for ice loss, the trend is solidly towards ice free summers — some scientists saying that we're 20 years ahead of schedule, based on past predictions, as to when that will occur.

Wang, M., and J. E. Overland, 2009: A sea ice free summer Arctic within 30 years?

I had heard about one study of whale bones on Northern Greenland that indicated there were ice free summers or mostly ice free summers around the same time 6000 - 8000 years before present....

It is quite possible that there will be an ice free summer before 2020.

So it's not linear, but you're going to extrapolate a linear trend into an ice free summer.

Now that would be an Arctic Hurricane, and I hereby predict one for the first sea ice free Summer.