Ice cap kaput.

PositionUPDATES - Climate change in the Arctic by 2020 - Technical report

See "Living with Climate Change in the Arctic," September/October 2005, p. 18

The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions for ice loss, a U.S. ice expert said in April. Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado, predicted the Arctic Ocean could be free or nearly free of summer ice by 2020, three...

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