"We kind of have an informal betting pool going around in our center and that betting pool is 'does the North Pole melt out this summer?' and it may well," said the center's senior research scientist, Mark Serreze.

It’s nice to see that even scientists have a sense of humor about global warming. I guess that probably comes from the years of people ignoring what they have to say.

But it doesn’t stop him from saying the inevitable … "It's a situation where we hate to say we told you so, but we told you so," he Serreze.

But it seems that even though the North Pole might be ice-free this fall, the scientists say it’s not that big of a deal.