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Arctic sea ice at record low

Open waters in northern ocean highlight massive melting.

Even for a society jaded by the continual breaking of climate records, the retreat of Arctic ice this year is stunning.

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Posted by Katharine Sanderson on September 18, 2007 05:44 PM |

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Oh Katharine! If you fail even to mention the record maximum extent of Antarctic sea ice which was recently reached, you look like an environmental activist, rather than someone who is interested in science.

Posted by: Bishop Hill | September 18, 2007 06:48 PM

Truly, a soberig article. I only hope it is not too late for humans to do something.

Alex Hallatt
Cartoonist for Arctic Circle

Posted by: Alex Hallatt | September 19, 2007 06:47 AM

I think it is a difficult developement of nature. Delining ice is a big problem of the cities next to the sea cause of higher sea

Posted by: Wasser | September 19, 2007 09:05 PM

I'm sure that if the Aslan of C. S. Lewis had consulted the White Witch's dwarves, they would have warned him of the dangers of climate change. And no wonder their society is jaded. They believe that their beloved ice age has been in decline for about 20,000 years 1, and fear that it may be almost at an end.

1 Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project Publications : Last Glacial Maximum http://pmip.lsce.ipsl.fr/publications/pub21k.shtml

Posted by: Daniel Kellis | September 24, 2007 05:36 PM

Bi-polar disorder, I say... Now neither the Antarctic, nor the Arctic behaves as our best models predicted. Do we really understand the role of CO2 in the climate system?

Posted by: Hardy B. Granberg | September 26, 2007 10:08 PM

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