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The Arctic ice cap will vanish completely in summer months within 20-30 years, polar researchers said Thursday, sounding the alarm two months before a critical climate change summit in Copenhagen. It is likely to be largely ice-free during the warmer months within a decade, according to findings from an arctic expedition led by British adventurer Pen Hadow. Veteran polar explorer Hadow and two other Britons went out on the Arctic ice cap for 73 days during the northern spring, taking more than 6,000 measurements and observations of the sea ice. The raw data they collected from March to May has been analysed, producing some stark predictions about the state of the ice cap. "The summer ice cover will completely vanish in 20 to 30 years but in less than that it will have considerably retreated," said Professor Peter Wadhams, head of the polar ocean physics group at Britain's Cambridge University. "In about 10 years, the Arctic ice will be considered as open sea." Starting off from northern Canada, Hadow, Martin Hartley and Ann Daniels skied over the ice cap to measure the thickness of the remaining ice, assessing its density and the depth of overlying snow, as well as taking weather and sea temperature readings. Across their 450-kilometre (290 mile) route, the average thickness of the ice floes was 1.8 metres (six feet), while it was 4.8 metres when incorporating the compressed ridges of ice. "An average thickness of 1.8 metres is typical of first year ice, which is more vulnerable in the summer. And the multi-year ice is shrinking back more rapidly," said Wadhams. "It's a concrete example of global change in action. "With a larger part of the region now in first year ice, it is clearly more vulnerable. The area is now more likely to become open water each summer, bringing forward the potential date when the summer sea ice will be completely gone." Dr. Martin Sommerkorn, senior climate change adviser for the World Wide Fund for Nature's international Arctic programme, said the survey painted a sombre picture of the ice meltdown, which was happening "faster than we thought". "Remove the Arctic ice cap and we are left with a very different and much warmer world," he said. Loss of sea ice cover will "set in motion powerful climate feedbacks which will have an impact far beyond the Arctic itself," he added. "This could lead to flooding affecting one quarter of the world's population, substantial increases in greenhouse gas emission from massive carbon pools and extreme global weather changes. "Today's findings provide yet another urgent call for action to world leaders ahead of the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in December to rapidly and effectively curb global greenhouse gas emissions." British energy and climate change minister Ed Miliband said the report "sets out the stark realities of a rapidly changing climate and illustrates the risk of an ice free summer in the Arctic in the not-too-distant future". "This further strengthens the case for an ambitious global deal in Copenhagen in December which the UK is fully committed to achieving," he added. Reuse content
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Arktički led ljeti će potpuno nestati 'za 20 do 30 godina', no već za deset godina Arktik će postati siguran kao pomorski put, rekli su znanstvenici predstavljajući zaključke istraživačke misije Peter Wadhams, profesor na sveučilištu u Cambridgeu, predstavio je na konferenciji za novinare u Londonu zaključke analiza provedenih na temelju tisuća podataka prikupljenih u 73-dnevnoj misiji. Dokazi topljenja arktičkog leda jedan su od najočitijih pokazatelja globalnog zatopljenja i trebali bi zvoniti na uzbunu stručnjacima koji će u se prosincu okupiti u Kopenhagenu na UN-ovu skupu o klimi. 'Ledeni pokrov potpuno će nestati ljeti za 20 do 30 godina, no jako će se stanjiti daleko prije. Za desetak godina, arktički ocean bit će more prohodno za plovidbu' tijekom ljeta, rekao je Wadhams. Ekipa istraživača obišla je 450 kilometara tog područja i mjerila debljinu leda te dobivene podatke usporedila s onima iz 2007., prenose agencije Reuters i AFP. Prosječna debljina leda iznosila je 1,8 metara, odnosno na vrhovima 4,8 metara, ustanovili su istraživači. 'Debljina od 1,8 metara karakteristična je za led koji se formira tijekom godine i osjetljiviji je ljeti', rekao je Wahdmas te naglasio da je to 'konkretni primjer klimatskog zagrijavanja'. Topljenje leda izazvat će porast razine oceana, atmosferske promjene i promjene morskih struja, a ugrozit će polarne medvjede i tuljane. Martin Sommerkorn iz Svjetskog fonda za prirodu (WWF), upozorio je da će taj proces osloboditi i velike količine plina s učinkom staklenika, koji si se smatraju odgovornima za globalno zatopljenje. Sommerskorn je objasnio da arktički permafrost (trajno zamrznuto tlo) sadrži dva puta više CO2 nego što je ima u atmosferi. Zamrznuto podmorje Arktika sadrži veće količine CO2 nego što ih ima u ležištima ugljena, nafte i plina na planetu, rečeno je. - Sviđa vam se članak? Preporučite ga prijateljima putem ovih servisa: Pošaljite mailom