The Week Ahead: Degrees of difference

Even if climate scientists gathered in Poland this week and next can come up with a way keep global warming at bay, an ice-free summer is likely in the Arctic’s future

By Kevin McGwin December 3, 2018
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At least once in the next fortnight — although more probably several times — you will hear that temperatures in the Arctic are rising twice as fast as elsewhere on the planet, and that an “ice-free*” summer in the Arctic Ocean can be expected some time before the end of the century, and perhaps as soon as 2040.

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