“Dec 14, 2009

New computer modeling suggests the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in summer as early as 2014, Al Gore said today at the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen.The former vice president said the new projections suggest an almost-vanished summer ice cap could disappear much earlier than foreseen by a U.S. government agency just eight months.”

Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014

Fifteen years later, extent is just below the average since 1979.

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