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North Pole Could Be Ice-Free This Summer

Environment (tags: thin Arctic sea ice, frozen in autumn, completely melt, away at the geographic, North Pole )

Eleanora
- 100 days ago - cnn.com

The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.The ice retreated to a record level in September when the Northwest

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Judy Cross (49)

Sunday June 29, 2008, 10:06 am
And it would not be the first time. It seems to happen every +-70 years.

From November 1922

Arctic Ocean Getting
Warm; Seals Vanish
And Icebergs Melt*

(By the Associated Press)

The Arctic ocean is warming
up, icebergs are growing scarcer
and in some places the seals are
finding the waters too hot, ac-
cording to a report to the Com-
merce Department yesterday
from Consul Ifft, at Bergen ,
Norway .

Reports from fishermen, seal
hunters and explorers, he
declared, all point to a radical
change in climatic conditions
and hitherto unheard-of tem-
peratures in the Arctic zone.
Exploration expeditions report
that scarcely any ice has been
met with as far north as 81
degrees 29 minutes. Soundings
to a depth of 3.100 meters
showed the gulf stream still very
warm.

Great masses of ice have
been replaced by moraines of
earth and stones, the report
continued, while at many points
well known glaciers have entirely
disappeared. Very few seals and
no white fish are being found in
the eastern Arctic, while vast
shoals of herring and smelts,
which have never before
ventured so far north, are being
encountered in the old seal
fishing grounds.
http://gustofhotair.blogspot.com/2008/03/novermber-1922-arctic-warmth-vanishing.html

Chris Otahal (390)

Sunday June 29, 2008, 3:25 pm
Nope - it is warmer now than in 1922 - its a bigger deal today :)

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/higher/climate_change.html