Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Arctic ice shrinks 18% in a year, sounding climate change alarm bells

Guardian: Sea ice in the Arctic shrunk a dramatic 18% this year to a record low of 3.41m sq km, according to the official US monitoring organisation the National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Boulder, Colorado. Scientists and environment groups last night said the fall was unprecedented and the clearest signal yet of climate change. The data released showed the arctic sea beginning to refreeze again in the last few days after the most dramatic melt observed since satellite observations started in 1979....

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/19/arctic-ice-shrinks
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/audio/video/2012/9/19/1348085090630/Arctic-sea-ice-001.jpg

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