Sunday, September 1, 2013

Arctic Sea Ice bounces back

IARC-JAXA ^ | 9/1/2013 | IJIS

The graph shows the Arctic Sea Ice Extant (in square kilometers) for 2013, 2011, 2007, and 2012.
Arctic Sea Ice Extant has almost reached the minimum (which usually occurs around mid-Sept) for this year.

In a December 2007 article appearing in National Geographic News, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally predicted that the Arctic would be ice free in the Summer of 2012,

That did not happen, as the graph shows, and this year the Summer minimum will be significantly higher than it was in 2012, as well as being higher than it was for 2007 and 2011.



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