That's about two decades sooner than various models for climatic warming have indicated the Arctic might fully open.
"No models here," Peter Wadhams, professor of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge in England, told the Arctic Circle Assembly on Sunday. "This is data."
Expert predicts ice-free Arctic by 2020
"This is data."
One of the leading authorities on the physics of northern seas is predicting an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2020, Alaska Dispatch News reports.