By what year do you think the Arctic will just be a big ocean?

Question

The ice there is less than 2 meters thick in most places.

Answer 1

I think by 2030 it will be just water in the summer. Just hope it doesn't all run off the top of the world!! Of course if it warms up that much it may not freeze in the winter anymore, but by then we'll all be dead because of bad things from global warming, and won't care.

Answer 2

I think the water and temperature is cold enough there to maintain winter ice into the foreseeable future.  It is a small shallow ocean so it will never be a big ocean.

Answer 3

No. It will take a lot longer. But we need to get the SUV's off the roads not because of the artic but because the economy is in greater danger of melting!

Answer 4

well by the rate its going probaly in onther 5-10 years from now.

it matters if we act and find renewable resource b4 our planet iz f***ed up.

Answer 5

I hope that its not for a long time but prolly by 2020 things will be alot more f*ck*d up than they are now!

Answer 6

i don't that global warming thing is a crock of **** so the gov can squeeze more money out of us with enviromental levys! there was 4 inches of snow and it was minus 10 on may 15 on the man sask border. never in all my days have i seen snow on the ground here in wpg. in the middle of may, with no grass,dandelions or leaves on the trees. lilacs used to be falling off the trees by the end of april, mid-may and there arent even buds yet. it's getting colder, not warmer. check the weather stats for your area and you will see.

Answer 7

BY 2015 IS MY GUESS

Answer 8

well aren't we the gloom and doomer....

global warmng and all the blah bah blah.  This si a normal climate change  the temp has not risen that much and  notw they are saying we are going to enter a mini ice age. check out

http://www.heartland.org/ for an alternate viewpoint than Al Gore totally inaccurate truth

Answer 9

at the rate we're burning fossil fuels and creating greenhouse gases, i'd say pretty soon

Answer 10

2017

Answer 11

2012

Answer 12

It'll happen gradually over time, maybe within a hundred years or so.  About this time the actual landmass in the Antarctic will also become exposed.  The thing people don't realize is that it'll freeze up again in a couple 100 or thousand years after that and the cycle will repeat.  It's a natural cycle the Earth goes through based on the 3 aspects of it's orbit:  eccentricity, obliquity, and wobble.  You can look up those three words in relation to Earth's orbit and you'll get an idea of what's happening and why as well as what's next.  Generally, this type of thing happens about every 100,000 years.  We just happen to be that lucky that it's happening on our watch.

Answer 13

IF we just all try to STOP it now it may work!!! In fact heres a video I found very sad & helpful to my knowlagde... even if it won't be it could be some day some way some how...http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/p...

Answer 14

Never. You have been brainwashed.

Answer 15

With the way things are going in nowadays with the global warming, I am going to guess within 10 years.

Answer 16

That depends on whether we get another bonehead republican president or not.

Answer 17

At the rate the globe has been warming (sense the last ice age) it should be another 100 million years. It has nothing to do with us, get over it.

Answer 18

Never.

Answer 19

It all ready is . It's the arctic ocean .

Answer 20

Actually, in the summer months, its down to 0 meters in some spots.  Because it melts and freezes seasonally.  What exactly are you asking?  Are you asking for a specific year that the entire Arctic region will be solely water? Besides being a very odd and somewhat nebulous question, it is impossible to predict with any certainty, despite what wild speculation and "feelings" others seem to have.  Of all the answers, to an unanswerable question, only one person was able to site sources.  What are your sources for the Sea Ice Thickness?  Because, according to the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory-U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website, "While the ice extent can readily be determined from space, unfortunately the ice thickness cannot. "  But that's just the Ice.  Are you also asking when the entirety of Greenland and parts of Russia, the US, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland will be submerged.  And which definition of Arctic are you using?  The physical local(66 degrees33'N) or the climatological and ecological definition?  I guess what I'm asking, is for a little specificity to your question.

Answer 21

actually, the ice is thicker than it has been in over 30 years. it is actually getting colder in antarctica right now.