Posted on 09/17/2010 9:11:38 AM PDT by neverdem
Ice floating on the Arctic Ocean melted unusually quickly this year, but did not shrink down to the record minimum area seen in 2007.
That is the preliminary finding of US scientists who say the summer minimum seems to have passed and the ice has entered its winter growth phase.
2010's summer Arctic ice minimum is the third smallest in the satellite era.
Researchers say projections of summer ice disappearing entirely within the next few years increasingly look wrong...
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Thanks for the ping!
“Never heard of it. Wonder how may govt. employees are there?”
Oh, so you think it doesn’t take anyone to count snowflakes?
I suppose you think that polar bears count themselves?
Geez, citizens....they don’t appreciate everything their government does for them.
The Danish Meterological Institute’s Centre for Ocean and Ice shows that above 80 degrees North latitude, this has been the warmest Summer since at least 1958. The early 1990’s had significantly warmer summers than now.
(source: http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php)
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