Spotlight On: Sea Ice Formation

As water molecules continue to freeze onto the underside of the existing sheet , it yields ‘first year ice’, which can, in a single season in the Arctic, reach a thickness of between 1.5 and 2 metres.
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Any ice that survives one or more summer seasons of partial melt is called multi-year ice. Growth continues from year to year until the ice thickness reaches a maximum of about 3 metres. More than half of the ice in the Arctic is thought to be multi-year ice.

[We're saved!  This US government website provides helpful information on the harmful effects of trace amounts of CO2!]

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Cold weather puts Chelsea Flower Show on a 'knife edge' - Telegraph

This year's Chelsea Flower Show could be a little less colourful than usual, organisers have warned, because the particularly cold winter has held back blooms by up to three weeks.

[Harvard: Research associate claims that we need "drastic changes in the way we live" because of small amounts of atmospheric CO2]

“[T]he biggest issue regarding climate change is the fact that it doesn’t look like we are going to do anything about it,” wrote [David S. Sayres, a research associate involved with the project]. “If we are going to mitigate climate change and possibly stop it we, meaning humans, are going to have to make some drastic changes in the way we live and the way we get our energy; and we need to do it quickly.”

[Arkansas debate: Democratic Senate candidate calls global warming a "hoax"]

But it was Morrison who interjected that his opposition to the cap-and-trade was because “global warming is a hoax perpetrated on a gullible public.”