Thursday, October 07, 2010

 

Why Reports of an Ice Free Northern Ocean Soon May Be Exaggerated


We're just a couple of weeks into the refreezing. We're still way down, but we're over 6 million square kilometers away from ice free. And it looks a lot more like the 30 year 'normal' we know than the 2007 minimum there on the left.

The current extent is about equal to India and Argentina combined, the 7th and 8th largest countries on the map.

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