80 Percent Of Arctic Ice To Disappear In 30 Years

The surface of the Arctic Ocean which is covered in ice amounts to 4.6 million squared metres today.

Approximately 80 percent of Arctic ice might disappear by the year 2040, instead of 2100 as it was previously estimated, a new research on the effects of global warming states, published on Thursday in the USA.

- They expect the area covered by summer sea ice to decline from about 2.8 million square miles to 620,000 square miles within 30 years research authors of the Washington University claim and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Ice will remain in the North of Canada and Greenland

The researchers have noticed anticipation models which consider the latest development of the ice cover on the Arctic, which has “spectacularly shrunk” at the end of the summer of 2007 and 2008, when the surface of ice was reduced from 4.3 to 4.7 millions of squared kilometres.

The average of these six models “pointed to a nearly ice-free Arctic in just 32 years”, according to the research of Muyin Wang, a climate expert in Seattle and NOAA oceanographer James Overland. Previous models were drafted in 2007 and anticipated that deadline at the end of the century.

Charts which illustrate their predictions include the North Pole without ice in the summer. Ice should stick only in the North of Canada and in Greenland, where it is much thicker.