When will the artic have an ice free summer? -Alternative Fuel Vehicles!Car:the ice in be and will of to is for not %26quot it

When will the artic have an ice free summer? When where there be an in ice free summer? I%26#039;ve heard 2008, 2013, 2020, 2030, 2040, etc. When is the best project guess on when it will be ice free?

Also, if it does what are the affects?

%26quot;This week, after reviewing his own new data, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: %26quot;At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.%26quot;
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The main effect will be rapid additional warming of the Arctic, since the reflective snow and ice covering will be gone. That heat may seriously affect crops such as wheat, so food prices could climb. The increasingly warm water traveling towards Europe and the West Coast of North America could disrupt fisheries, intensify weather in Europe and the Western United States, and shifting wind patterns could intensify droughts (Southwestern U.S. for example, possibly the Midwest).

%26quot;northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.

Professor Wieslaw Maslowski told an American Geophysical Union meeting that previous projections had underestimated the processes now driving ice loss.

Summer melting this year reduced the ice cover to 4.13 million sq km, the smallest ever extent in modern times.%26quot;

%26quot;Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007,%26quot; the researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, explained to the BBC.

%26quot;So given that fact, you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative.%26quot;

Get it? Even 2013 maybe too conservative an estimate. I quess in 5 years we%26#039;ll know for sure.

What affect does melting ice have on the water level it is floating in?
For example, the polar icecap.

Here is a science experiment to answer that question:
Put ice cubes in a glass, then fill the glass to the rim water. Allow the ice to melt and see for yourself what happens to the water level.

When you do, please reconsider the truth of global warming.

difficult to estimate speed of a non linear change. my guess is sooner rather than later, 3 or 4 years to a switch to no sea ice at all in the summer and a yearly cover in winter, more like what happens in the sea around the antarctic ice shelves.
there will still be ice on greenland for next 50 or so years at least, i%26#039;m sure.

Never. The ice loss was caused by ocean currents, not a rise in temperatures.

These ocean currents change because of natural cycles, not anything man has done.

Now that the ocean currents changed, the ice will not melt like last year.

well since the ice pack is deeper in some areas than usual (not being reported by the media because it doen%26#039;t suit their agenda) and since nobody really knows what%26#039;s going on......let%26#039;s say 2198 when you%26#039;ll be long gone and not suffering from this silliness.

i think about 50 yrs from now or something... anyways if it did the coast will be completely covered a huge number of island will disappear and the earth will become way hotter

anyways if u want more details and everything try watching the movie inconvenient truth

by 2028 common logic

God Forbid!!!!
Count on oil prices going higher%26amp; animal extinction.

Try never in your life time.

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  Not in this century... there will always be a little up there on the North pole. If all the ice melts up there, lots of our coasts will be covered by the sea.