ApocaDocs: Meltdown: how long does the Arctic have?

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Posted Sun Jun 29 2008: from Times Online (UK):


	Meltdown: how long does the Arctic have? http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1214772156 "Now we are wondering if that is what is happening now. If it is, then the summertime ice cap may never recover and by 2013, or sometime soon after, it could be gone." If Holland is right, then the destruction of the Arctic ice cap could become the first great global warming disaster. Why is it happening so fast? And how will it affect the rest of the world? ... Peter Wadhams, professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, has been watching this process for two decades, making trips under the polar ice cap in a Royal Navy submarine equipped with radar that can measure the thickness of the ice. Over that period the average thickness has fallen by 40 percent.

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We are, indeed, on thin ice.