Within the next several
decades, ice over the Arctic will completely
disappear during the summer. That’s
just one of the clear and dramatic predictions to
come from models developed by the Climate Ocean
and Sea Ice Modeling (COSIM) program at the Department
of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Additionally, “The models now predict
globally an average surface temperature
rise of 2 to 4 degrees Celsius over the
next 100 years,” says the program’s
project manager, Philip Jones. And
the oceans account for more than
70 percent of the Earth’s surface.