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Arctic Ice Extent Tops 2012's, But Is 6th Lowest In History
We mentioned recently the rebound in Arctic ice levels compared to those found at the end of last summer; now that the 2013 minimum has been reached, Forbes' Alex Knapp points out that 2013's figures still show the 6th lowest ice extent in recorded history. "This pattern is expected to continue as average global temperatures continue to rise, leading to further Arctic Ice melts. The volume of sea ice – that is, how thick the Arctic ice is, has also been steadily declining over the same period. And although the charts above only go back to the 80s, the loss of sea ice began several decades prior to that. In 2011, a paper published in Nature estimating Arctic ice extent for the past 1450 years shows a sharp decline in Arctic ice beginning in the mid-20th century."
... that the trend of annual extent minima was supposed to be monotonic?
If that can possibly be phrased in a sexual manner then yo mama said it. That's who.
Nothing resembling "the arctic" is ever mentioned in the Bible.
A fish.
They didn't evolve from Brown Bears. They transformed from Cartesian Bears :)
We may as well just laugh because the science deniers have even more of a problem with evolution than they do with the climate changing. Both argue against a perfect unchanging world since day 7 which Christianity-Lite likes to pretend is the state of things.
Alaska had a real summer comparable to the lower 48 of the United States. Nice cabin there if the summers warm up to near 20 Celsius for months on end!
Yes, but the warmer temps up there mean more mosquitos... which are already the size of vultures.
A bit further south, in Canada, the mosquitoes take down cows. My gods, they've spread further south than I imagined.
For all our sakes, let's pray they don't descend on truly South America.