Lead author: Ted Scambos
Where published: Geophysical Research Letters
The Arctic icecap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions made by a UN climate panel, a US ice expert says.
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 from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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no doubt that this is caused in large part by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
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