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Posted Sat Feb 6 2010: from Sydney Morning Herald:
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Arctic ice melt worst than 'most pessimistic' models: study http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1265472835
Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice, scientists said on Friday in giving their early findings from the biggest-ever study of Canada's changing north.
The research project involved more than 370 scientists from 27 countries who collectively spent 15 months, starting in June 2007, aboard a research vessel above the Arctic Circle. It marked the first time a ship has stayed mobile in Canada's high Arctic for an entire winter...
Models predicted only a few years ago that the Arctic would be ice-free in summer by the year 2100, but the increasing pace of climate change now suggests it could happen between 2013 and 2030...
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Very Scary Tags: arctic meltdown, faster than expected, feedback loop, global warming, holyshit, death spiral
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