Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis
Note this three-week-old headline from the New York Times: As Arctic Sea Ice Melts, Experts Expect New Low
Despite overall cooler summer temperatures, the 2008 minimum extent is only 390,000 square kilometers (150,000 square miles), or 9.4%, more than the record-setting 2007 minimum.Note that the additional 390,000 square kilometers is over 4,400 times the size of Manhattan.
Note this three-week-old headline from the New York Times: As Arctic Sea Ice Melts, Experts Expect New Low
Update: To the commenter that mentions the Arctic ice decline since 1979, I ask these two questions:
1. Seriously, do you think that human CO2 emissions caused the Pacific Decadal Oscillation to go to a warm phase in both the 1920s and the 1970s?
2. Seriously, after we're well into the next cool phase of the PDO, don't you think we might have a lot more Arctic sea ice?
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So, while the word National is in their title, they're still just another private group of researchers whose funding goes bye-bye if ice mass increases and the "problem" goes away. I wonder if that might have an affect on the wording of their press releases.
Seriously, though. Do you really expect us to look at the data and not see the obvious downtrend just because this year is less bad than last?
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