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[andygates]

2013 - that's the year that a climate model reported on the Beeb (usual caveats on Beeb science apply) predicts as the first year in which the Arctic ice melts completely in the summer.

Not "by the end of the century" or something distant and vague like that.  One year after the London Olympics. 

That's the polar bears buggered, then.  Arctic oil exploration and Cold War-style posturing.  Oh, and the North Pole?  Where Santa lives?  Someone re-write that for the kids, because he can't live there any more.

Five and a half years?

Fuck.