Arctic will be ice free in three decades

This is the conclussion drawn by two independent researchers from Washington state on a selection of the best models for the effects of ongoing climatic change in the Arctic. Climatlogist Muyin Wang and oceanographer James Overland selected the six best performing models on this matter (out of 23), picking only those that had been able to make good predictions for the recent past, and concluded that this (bottom half, top two are from now) is the most likely picture for March and September 2040:

Source: Science Daily.
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