Arctic Sea Ice

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The BBC reported today a projection that the Pole will be clear of ice in the next decade.

Scientists who predicted a few years ago that Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2013 now say summer ice will probably be gone within this decade.

The original prediction, made in 2007, gained Wieslaw Maslowski's team a deal of criticism from some of their peers.

Now they are working with a new computer model - compiled partly in response to those criticisms - that produces a "best guess" date of 2016.

Away from a frightening speculation into reports of fact the National Snow and Ice Data Center has recorded that the Arctic Sea Ice maximum has occurred round about March 11. NSIDC says this is the 2nd lowest on record.

National Snow and Ice Data Center



Another presentation of the data from Cryosphere Today shows the variation to be more than 700,000 sq km less than the mean from the 1979 - 2008 period.

[XemaSab]

1. .

:kick:

[pscot]

2. The anomaly is increasing

When the ice is gone, the rate of ocean warming is likely to increase, no?

[Systematic Chaos]

3. Well that, and a few billion tons of methane will likely **FOOF** up into the air.

Fun times, indeed.

:(

[XemaSab]

4. Still tracking below 2007

n/t