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Last summer the amount of Arctic ice reduced to 1,6 million square kilometers - the minimal level for the whole history, according the data given by NASA sputnik and European space agency.
Moreover, updated information point at the fact that melting processes speed up every year. That's why by the summer 2100 arctic might completely get free from ice and become a shipping area.
Greenland climate is a much more speaking proof of global warming. 10-15 years ago northern ice-flows were many dozens meters wide, but now some of them have disappeared at all others are getting smaller very heady.
According to the local specialists estimates, for the last five years the speed of ice melting has accelerated twice.
Melting ice-flows release 20 million tons of water every day. This water flows into Atlantic and Pacific Ocean mainly. |
