Climate change: The Arctic as it is known today is almost certainly gone

Print section Print Rubric:  The Arctic as it is known today is almost certainly gone Print Headline:  Polar bare Print Fly Title:  The Arctic UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  How to have a better death Fly Title:  Climate change Main image:  20170429_blp520.jpg THOSE who doubt the power of human beings to change Earth’s climate should look to the Arctic, and shiver. There is no need to pore over records of temperatures and atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentrations. The process is starkly visible in the shrinkage of the ice that covers the Arctic ocean. In the past 30 years, the minimum coverage of summer ice has fallen by half; its volume has fallen by three-quarters. On current trends, the Arctic ocean will be largely ice-free in summer by 2040. Climate-change sceptics will shrug. Some may even celebrate: an ice-free Arctic ocean promises a ...

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