[news] Arctic Summers Ice-free 'by 2013'

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

[![][1]][2]By Jonathan Amos | Science reporter, BBC News, San Francisco

[T]he ice-albedo feedback effect [is when] open water [absorbs] more solar radiation [than ice], which in turn leads to additional warming and further melting.

"The loss this year will precondition the ice for the same thing to happen again next year, only worse. **In the end, it will just melt away quite suddenly**."  


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    [3]: http://mostlywater.org/arctic_summers_icefree_2013

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