• Question: What percentage of the polar regions do you predict will have melted by the year 2030?

    Asked by anon-207630 to Oliver on 15 Mar 2019.
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      Oliver Andrews answered on 15 Mar 2019: last edited 15 Mar 2019 10:01 am

      Hi Jamie, that’s a very interesting question.
      First we need to distinguish between the South Pole (Antarctica) and the North Pole (the Arctic). It is currently thought that the Arctic is most at risk of climate change, and has already changed considerably over the recent past. The “sea ice” (seasonal ice forming on the ocean) in the Arctic may have approximately halved in the next 40 years based on computer modelling.

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