Burning the planet at both Poles

Arctic ice has been melting slowly for 2 decades. Within a decade or two, a summertime spacecraft pointing its camera at the North Pole (like above) will see nothing but open ocean. There will be ice on Greenland-but much less ice. Between 2003 and 2008 more than a trillion ton's of the island's ice melted, an area ten times the size of Manhattan. In fact we now know that the climate doesn't even have to warm any more for Greenland to continue losing ice.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11322310