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Models that best match historical trends project a nearly icefree arctic in the. Arctic may be ice free by 2040 in summer why the fuss. Thanks to global warming, the arctic icecap is rapidly melting, opening up access to massive natural resources and creating shipping shortcuts that could save billions of dollars a year. Models that best match historical trends project a nearly icefree arctic in the summer by the 2030s. Climate change 2014, impacts, adaptation and vulnerability pdf. Meltdown in the arctic is speeding up climate change. Chapman, a seaice researcher at the university of illinois at urbanachampaign, notes that the size of the ice cap can vary tremendously, in part because of changes in wind patterns, which can cause the ice to heap up against one arctic shore or drift away from another. Sea and land ice are cracking up at a record pace the images from the arctic ice death spiral are haunting. But there are currently no clear rules governing this economically and strategically vital region.
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