Loss Of Arctic Ice Accelerating

The Guardian:

The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer. Levels of sea ice in the region now stand at a record low. An area almost twice as big as Britain has disappeared in the last week alone. If the increased rate of melting continues, the summertime Arctic could be totally free of ice by 2030.

Mark Serreze, an Arctic specialist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre at Colorado University in Denver: "If you asked me a couple of years ago when the Arctic could lose all of its ice, then I would have said 2100, or 2070 maybe. But now I think that 2030 is a reasonable estimate.

It seems that the Arctic is going to be a very different place within our lifetimes, and certainly within our children's lifetimes."