Expert predicts ice-free Arctic by 2020 as UN releases climate report

[Epikur]

Saw this one. It is an example how trust gets lost bit by bit.
 

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"By 2020, one would expect the summer sea ice to disappear. By summer, we mean September. ... (but) not many years after, the neighboring months would also become ice-free."

https://www.adn.com/arctic/article/expert-predicts-ice-free-arctic-2020-same-day-un-releases-climate-report/2014/11/02/

 

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Attempting to estimate when the Arctic Ocean will be "ice-free", Wadhams in 2014 predicted that by 2020 "summer sea ice to disappear,"[4][5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wadhams

 

[abundance]

What difference does it make? We're pretty close to having an ice free artic. Based on trends I wouldn't be surpised if it happens within the next 5 years or so. Whether it occurs this summer or 5 years from now it really doesn't matter. The tipping point has already been passed and once the ice melts it isn't coming back (at least not within a timeframe that's relevant to homosapiens). Humanity failed to rise to the occasion when it mattered and pretty soon we'll be facing some pretty dire consequences.