This is from a 2003 study. The governments of the world knew this was coming.

The Arctic Ocean 1979

…The result has direct connections to NASA-funded studies conducted last year that found perennial, or year-round, sea ice in the Arctic is declining at a rate of nine percent per decade and that in 2002 summer sea ice was at record low levels. Early results indicate this persisted in 2003.

Researchers have suspected loss of Arctic sea ice may be caused by changing atmospheric pressure patterns over the Arctic that move sea ice around, and by warming Arctic temperatures that result from greenhouse gas buildup in the atmosphere….

It is an inconvenient truth it has happened when the global economy crashed.  One has to ask if it was sincerely wise to bailout the banks so much as investing it the people.  The problem is that austerity with lack of job growth is tragic to the human condition.  The governments are not doing their job in protecting their people and their sovereignty. 

Arctic Ocean 2003