On May 4th, the NSIDC announced<http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/index.html>that “ *Arctic sea ice extent at the end of April 2009 was within the expected range of natural variability*.” and “*The decline rate for the month of April was the third slowest on record*“. Let's all revisit this in August, when the July data is in. Then we will see what's going on. It may well be that we will have rather a lot of two year old ice next year. Or, maybe not. Why guess when in a couple of months we will know.
dschnare [image: Northern Hemisphere extent trend graph]<http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/n_plot_daily.html> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Albert Kallio <[email protected]>wrote: > The Arctic Ocean's cross-sectional profile of sea ice thickeness was 177.7 > cm meaning that virtually all ice that was encountered was about year old, > leading to speculations that the sea ice break-up and melt away takes place. > > The 75-day Catlin Arctic Survey was completed today three weeks early due > to the weakening of the sea ice and that already one Canadian and one Danish > team of explorers had to be emergency rescued due to weakening ice. > > ------------------------------ > Get the New Internet Explore 8 Optimised for MSN. Download > Now<http://extras.uk.msn.com/internet-explorer-8/?ocid=T010MSN07A0716U> > > > -- David W. Schnare Center for Environmental Stewardship --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
