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Thread #87391   Message #2824181
Posted By: Sawzaw
28-Jan-10 - 11:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Where's the Global Warming
Subject: RE: BS: Where's the Global Warming
National Geographic News
June 20, 2008

Arctic warming has become so dramatic that the North Pole may melt this summer, report scientists studying the effects of climate change in the field.

"We're actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time [in history]," David Barber, of the University of Manitoba, told National Geographic News aboard the C.C.G.S. Amundsen, a Canadian research icebreaker.