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Will Arctic summers be ice-free by 2012?
Current forecast: 15% chance

Combining all predictions, the current forecast is that this is 15% likely to happen (unchanged in last 1 day)
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Xinhuanet 1 week ago
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CBC North 2 weeks ago
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and Ice on the same day in 2008 looks like this: http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims_gif/DATA/cursnow_alaska.gif I think the answer is clearly NO..IT WILL NOT. Because we are gaining ice..not losing it.
I got to go with NO on this. We are growing ice..not losing it..Plenty of room for those polar bears. an additional 3 million miles of ice for them to walk on this time over last year
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