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Arctic nearly free of summer sea ice during first half of 21st century
2013-04-12 21:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: For scientists studying summer sea ice in the Arctic, it's not a question of "if" there will be nearly ice-free summers, but "when." And two scientists say that "when" is sooner than many thought -- before 2050 and possibly within the next decade or two. James Overland of NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and Muyin Wang of the NOAA Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean at the University of Washington, looked at three methods of predicting when the Arctic will be nearly...
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