Arctic Could Be Ice-Free By Century's End... 500,000 Extra Square Miles Melted This Year...

The New York Times   |  ANDREW C. REVKIN   |   September 28, 2005 09:58 PM

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The floating cap of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean shrank this summer to what is probably its smallest size in at least a century of record keeping, continuing a trend toward less summer ice, a team of climate experts reported yesterday.

That shift is hard to explain without attributing it in part to human-caused global warming, the team's members and other experts on the region said.

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