The Arctic ice melted four times faster than forecast

US scientists have confirmed that the Arctic ice sheets are thinning at a rate four times faster than the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast.

Affirmed on the scientists of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) published in the Journal of ocean geophysical research on August 14. In it, they emphasized that IPCC did not take into account the factors that made ice melt faster after being thinned. The Arctic ice sheets will be melted faster by mechanical forces such as wind and ocean currents. Therefore, the possibility of no longer ice in the Arctic in the summer can come faster than the IPCC's forecast of 2100.

The Arctic ice melted four times faster than forecast.

The most urgent issue now is to increase the accuracy of the forecast of the Arctic melting speed by calculating the impact of the factor that the IPCC has not yet evaluated or underestimated.

In addition, in the study, scientists also showed that ice in the Arctic has lost a third since 1979 and the area covered with ice in the Arctic has also dropped its record in July. IPCC president, Rajendra Pachauri, stressed that the most important thing to do now is to begin emergency intervention to slow the ice melt.