Arctic Ice Shrank 7.4 Percent In Last 25 Years - Warming Link

Report: Arctic Ice Shrinking Due to Global Warming
OSLO (Reuters) - "Global warming (news - web sites) will melt most of the Arctic icecap in summertime by tne end of the century, a report showed Wednesday. The three-year international study indicated that ice around the North Pole had shrunk by 7.4 percent in the past 25 years with a record small summer coverage in September 2002.

'The summer ice cover in the Arctic may be reduced by 80 percent at the end of the 21st century,' said Norwegian Professor Ola Johannessen, the main author of the report funded by the European Commission.

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Johannessen said that the report, published on the Internet ahead of peer review, also indicated that a recent thinning of the polar icecap was linked to huma emissions of gases like carbon dioxide blamed for blanketing the planet. But the study showed a thinning of the icecap from 1920-19840 was caused by natural climate fluctuations, such as ocean currents and winds, rather than by a build-up of greenhouse gases."

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