From the 1970s to the new millennium, the Arctic summer ice floes or twice the current. The data show that the melting of the Arctic ice has been accelerating over the past 40 years.In early August this year, a storm destroyed large tracts of Arctic ice, resulting in the Arctic began the melting process of the fastest ever recorded.
The Arctic is getting cold, ice from the winter to the spring of next year will be expanded, but the whole area, and ice thickness than ever to reduce a lot. 30 years ago, the ice is about average thickness of 3.5 meters, today only 2 meters. This phenomenon completely changed the former climate patterns.
Natural physicists of the University of Bremen and the Max Planck Institute pointed out that the melting of the Arctic ice will accelerate the air warming, melting glaciers of Greenland to sea-level rise. The former Arctic ice to reflect sunlight, and now the ice melts, the ocean absorbs the sun's heat to the air temperature rises.
5000-8000 years ago, the Holocene climate optimum state, when the Arctic ice is less than it is now, temperatures average about 3 degrees Celsius higher than it is now. In the 1930s, the temperatures in the Arctic and today almost, but scientists warned that mankind is standing on the threshold of a serious change in climate. European climate change has come, cold winter.
However, the scientists when Arctic summer ice-free phenomenon controversial. The most pessimistic view is that in 2016, some of the other some scientists expected after 15 years, there is a saying in the end of the century. Can be sure that, from the beginning of this year's summer Arctic can pass the ship. European vessels can bypass freely across the Bering Strait in the Arctic without going through Russia's territorial waters, the shipping enterprises might be good news.
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