Arctic Sea Ice Cover At Record Low

[hatrack]

Source: CNN

BOULDER, Colorado (CNN) -- Ice cover in the Arctic Ocean, long held to be an early warning of a changing climate, has shattered the all-time low record this summer, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder.

Using satellite data and imagery, NSIDC now estimates the Arctic ice pack covers 4.24 million square kilometers (1.63 million square miles) -- equal to just less than half the size of the United States. This figure is about 20 percent less than the previous all-time low record of 5.32 million square kilometers (2.05 million square miles) set in September 2005

Mark Serreze, senior research scientist at NSIDC, termed the decline "astounding."

"It's almost an exclamation point on the pronounced ice loss we've seen in the past 30 years," he said.

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Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/11/arctic.ice.cover/

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Ed. - This is yet another record low - the fourth in five weeks, if memory serves.

[BeHereNow]

1. Translation: We're fucked.

And then some.
Not to mention the other life that will go
extinct due to our incessant need to consume fossil fuels.

BHN:cry:

[Systematic Chaos]

2. But look at the bright side!

When the supporters or renewables OR nuclear plants get their way, the amount of soot and particulate matter in the atmosphere will start to decrease! And then this loss of the global dimming phenomenon will mean that the planet will get really, REALLY WARM!

Wait, what? :spank: