MADRID .- The Arctic could be ice during the warmer months of 2013, according to recent studies performed with supercomputers and have just been presented at a scientific conference in the U.S..
Previous research, also based on computer models of Earth's climate, had already warned that the North Pole ice at serious risk because of climate change. However, recent results are much more pessimistic about it.
According to Professor Wieslaw Maslowski, a widely recognized figure in the weather, the cold waters of the Arctic could lose its glaciers in the summer of here just five or six years.
This was just announced the researcher said at a conference Geophysical Union American, reports the BBC.
Last summer, the glaciers shrank to cover just over four million square kilometers, the lowest figure known in recent times.
According to Maslowski, previous studies had underestimated the speed at which glaciers are shrinking, and even research new and more alarming still conservative sin, according to the author, not to be included in the final model and data concern last summer.
Maslowwski team involves scientists from NASA, the Institute of Oceanology and the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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