NASA Sees Rapid Changes in Arctic Sea Ice

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NASA data shows that Arctic perennial sea ice, which normally survives the summer melt season and remains year-round, shrunk abruptly by 14 percent between 2004 and 2005. According to researchers, the loss of perennial ice in the East Arctic Ocean neared 50 percent during that time as some of the ice moved from the East Arctic to the West.

The overall decrease in winter Arctic perennial sea ice totals 280,000 square miles--an area the size of Texas. Perennial ice can be 10 or more feet thick. It was replaced by new, seasonal ice only about one to seven feet thick that is more vulnerable to summer melt.

The decrease in the perennial ice raises the possibility that Arctic sea ice will retreat to another record low extent this year. This follows a series of very low ice-cover years observed over the past four summers from active and passive microwave satellite data.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/sep/H...15_sea_ice.html

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beat you to it

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...mp;#entry445134

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i glad i live in the midwest..ocean front property one day

[one...two...tree 2,762]

beat you to it

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...mp;#entry445134

My bad, Charles... however, I did go straight to the source (NASA).

[Ban Hammer 13,633]

beat you to it

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...mp;#entry445134

My bad, Charles... however, I did go straight to the source (NASA).

lol. well i did post it thinking you'd spot it and be all over that article