Arctic Ice Reaches Second-Lowest Seasonal Minimum

[Chris_]

Arctic Ice Reaches Second-Lowest Seasonal Minimum

WASHINGTON —  Crucial Arctic sea ice this summer shrank to its second lowest level on record, continuing an alarming trend, scientists said Tuesday.

The ice covered 1.74 million square miles on Friday, marking a low point for this summer, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.

Last summer, the sea ice covered only 1.59 million square miles, the lowest since record-keeping began in 1979.

29 years of data ain't enough, but it won't stop them from playing "chicken little".   

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Study finds Arctic seabed afire with lava-spewing volcanoes

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=81bb2fd3-63f1-476f-b0be-f48c0dc90304

Hmmmmm, melting Arctic ice and volcanoes under the Arctic Ocean.  Nah, couldn't be any connection.  [/algore mode]

[Randy]

It looks to me like Glowball Warming is over, just think about how many poor Polar Bears can live on the extra 150000 sq miles that survived the summer.