Satellite analysis has revealed two ice caps in the Arctic have completely disappeared.
Patrick Bay ice caps in the 1980s when he was a student.
The disappearance of the ice caps was confirmed by NASA’s Terra satellite.
He said: “When I first visited those ice caps, they seemed like such a permanent fixture of the landscape.
He first visited the ice caps in 1982 but published a paper in 2017 predicting they would disappear in less than five years.
A post on the NSIDC website explains: “In 2017, scientists compared ASTER satellite data from July 2015 to vertical aerial photographs taken in August of 1959.
“They found that between 1959 and 2015, the ice caps had been reduced to only five percent of their former area, and shrank noticeably between 2014 and 2015 in response to the especially warm summer in 2015.
“The ice caps are absent from ASTER images taken on July 14, 2020.”.
In 1959 the ice caps measured in at 2.8 square miles and 2.93 square km (1.1 square miles) respectively.
Serreze told Discovery: “It was like watching a sick friend slowly waste away from some awful disease?
The ice caps at St
The Little Ice Age was a period of cooling between the 14th and 19th centuries
The ice caps that remain in the area are melting less quickly but experts still think they are doomed
Serreze told Discovery: “Climate change is very, very real, and as long predicted, the Arctic is leading the way
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