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Loss of summer sea ice in Arctic is imminent

X post by Naomi Oreskes on predictions of Arctic ice-free summers.

World-renowned Professor of the History of Science, and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, Dr Naomi Oreskes posted a link to the article The Arctic will have ice-free summers as soon as the 2030s, on the social media platform X.

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