2008-06-20 North Pole May Be Ice-Free for First Time This Summer

2008-06-20 \global warming\University of Manitoba\National Geographic/articles\University of Colorado http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080620-north-pole.html North Pole May Be Ice-Free for First Time This Summer 2=&ldquo;"We're actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time [in history]," David Barber, of the University of Manitoba, told National Geographic News aboard the C.C.G.S. Amundsen, a Canadian research icebreaker. ... "I would say the ice in the vicinity of the North Pole is primed for melting, and an ice-free North Pole is a good possibility," Sheldon Drobot, a climatologist at the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research at the University of Colorado, said by email.&rdquo; Commentary: Slashdot   