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Arctic ice cap melting 30 years ahead of forecast
Tue May 1, 2007 3:11PM EDT
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.S. ice expert said on Tuesday.
This means the ocean at the top of the world could be free or nearly free of summer ice by 2020, three decades sooner than the global panel's gloomiest forecast of 2050.
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