An ice-free Arctic this Summer?

Question

What impact would this have on the rest of the Earth's climate?

How do AGW skeptics explain that?

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4728737&page=1

Answer 1

Would be interesting.   See if any cargo ships start taking the shortcut from Asia to Europe through there.

Answer 2

are you asking how skeptic explain an article that says " arctic might be ice free this summer"?

what is your point, its an article, in the media.  Its propaganda.  why do you take things like that seriously.  The media is full of journalists, not scientists.

It probably wont have any effect on the climate, winter will always return to the arctic.

Answer 3

Really I do not what all the fuss is about. Enormous quantities of water are trapped at the poles but enormous deserts are to be found too. Once all that water melted those deserts should disappear too. And the atmosfere should absorb that water too so that those predicted floods should be less important than expected. Really ,isn't that obvious?