Polls shaken by poles | Herald Sun

GLOBAL warming believers told us this year to look at the Arctic - and heed the awesome lesson.

And, boy, were they right...

BBC | Polar trio on ice cap expedition

Current estimates of how long ice will be a year-round feature around the North Pole vary considerably - with scientific predictions ranging between five and 100 years.
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The project will help fill the current gap in existing measurement studies by satellites and submarines - which cannot differentiate between ice and snow layers.

Professor Wieslaw Maslowski, from the US Naval Postgraduate School, said the data would enable them to test the accuracy of their modelling and re-assess projections as to how long the surviving ice was likely to last.