{"id":14716,"date":"2011-08-16T17:45:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T00:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=14716"},"modified":"2018-02-02T00:18:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T00:18:34","slug":"a-close-look-at-the-melting-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/08\/16\/a-close-look-at-the-melting-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Close Look at a Melting Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure  id=\"attachment_14723\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14723 size-medium\" title=\"arctic\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/08\/arctic1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/08\/arctic1-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/08\/arctic1-160x160.jpg 160w, 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&#8220;what may be the world&#8217;s next geopolitical battleground.&#8221; Part of that look includes considering the impact of rising temperatures and melting ice, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/08\/15\/139556207\/arctic-warming-unlocking-a-fabled-waterway\">freshly-opened strategic waterways<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/08\/16\/139577789\/russia-pushes-to-claim-arctic-as-its-own\">rush to claim<\/a> newly-accessible natural resources, like oil and gas deposits.<\/p>\n<p>This focus comes just as <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2011\/arctic-ice-melt-0810.html\">MIT releases a new study<\/a> arguing that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) substantially underestimated the rate at which Arctic sea ice is melting.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/publications_and_data\/publications_and_data_reports.shtml\">IPCC&#8217;s Fourth Assessment Report<\/a>, released in 2007, forecasts an ice-free Arctic summer by the year 2100.\u00a0 NPR has created an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/08\/15\/139261223\/the-arctics-diminishing-sea-ice\">animated map,<\/a> showing the Arctic&#8217;s loss of summer sea ice for the last 30 years. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure  id=\"attachment_14717\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 574px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/08\/15\/139261223\/the-arctics-diminishing-sea-ice\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14717\" title=\"Picture 2\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/08\/Picture-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/08\/Picture-2.png 574w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/08\/Picture-2-160x142.png 160w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/08\/Picture-2-240x212.png 240w, 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