Arctic Sea Ice Extent At A Decadal High Every Day In November

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quote:Experts like Nobel Prize winner Al Gore predicted that the Arctic would be ice-free in 2014. Instead, we have seen a large increase in the amount of Arctic sea ice – which has been at a 10 year high every day this month.

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I matched Tuba's ice melt with my ice freeze.

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Global warming melts ice in some areas. Climate change grows ice in other areas. We (and by we, I mean you) must pay more taxes to offset the disastrous effect humans are having on our environment (whatever direction that effect is heading today).

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Experts like Nobel Prize winner Al Gore

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predicted that the Arctic would be ice-free in 2014

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One study estimated that it could be completely gone during summer in less than 22 years. Another new study, to be presented by U.S. Navy researchers later this week, warns it could happen in as little as 7 years

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At the end of its melt season, Arctic sea ice fell to the sixth lowest extent in the satellite record, both in the daily and monthly average. Sea ice hit 5.02 million square kilometers (1.94 million square miles) on September 17 and averaged 5.3 million square kilometers (2.05 million square miles) for the month of September.

"Twenty years ago, having ice extent this low would have astounded us," said NSIDC Director Mark Serreze. "Now it is expected."

This year edged out last year as the sixth lowest extent since satellites started measuring sea ice in 1979. The lowest Arctic extent on record occurred in 2012, when sea ice measured 3.41 million square kilometers (1.32 million square miles). The succeeding lowest years are 2007, 2011, 2008, and 2010.

Through 2014, Arctic sea ice has now been declining at a rate of 13.3% per decade relative to the 1981 to 2010 average. The ten lowest September ice extents over the satellite record have all occurred in the last ten years.

“This year was nothing surprising. Overall we’re continuing the long-term decreasing trend,” said Walt Meier, research scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. “We’re still well below average and there’s no indication that we’re going to recover.”

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