Arctic Ice Cap Melt 30 Years Ahead Of Forecast

Reuters   |  Deborah Zabarenko   |   May 1, 2007 09:23 PM

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The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.S. ice expert said on Tuesday.

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.

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