- Despite what we might read in the newspaper, we will likely have ice in the Arctic for a long time.
The Catlin Arctic Survey, a project set out to answer vital scientific questions about sea ice in the Arctic, had just returned with its findings....How long did the Arctic ice cover have left?
The results, said Wadhams, who has studied the Arctic since the 1970s, were terrifying.
The survey supported the “new consensus view that the rapid melting of sea ice will turn this frozen landscape into an open ocean within twenty years” and that “much of that decrease will be happening within ten years.”
...Three years later, Wadhams predicted that an ice-free Arctic would occur in 2015 or 2016, describing the climate events of these northern latitudes as a “global disaster.”..."
...Three years later, Wadhams predicted that an ice-free Arctic would occur in 2015 or 2016, describing the climate events of these northern latitudes as a “global disaster.”..."
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