The Arctic may be free of all summer ice in 35 years!

The Arctic midnight sun over Lancaster Sound, Nunavut, Canada.

New computer modelling shows that the Arctic may be free of all summer ice by as early as 2040, according to a team of US scientists who presented their findings to the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco.

Think about it! That'll be in your lifetime!
What will our planet be like by that time without that ice there where it should be for ever?