As Of 11/1/16, 142 New Daily Record Lows In Arctic Sea Ice Extent

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In coastal Nunavut communities, the sea has largely frozen over. But the Arctic sea ice cover, in other places like Barrow, Alaska, where the water remains open, is looking abnormally small and weak this month—so much so that it’s raised concern among weather watchers around the world.

“Remarkable…Sea ice extent has set 142 new daily record lows.” That’s according to a Nov. 1 Twitter posting from Zack Labe, a graduate science student at the University of California-Irvine and a tracker of Arctic ice conditions, who describes himself on Twitter as a “brazen weather freak.”

Labe notes that for the first time in the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, satellite record, which goes back to the 1970s, the Arctic sea ice extent hadn’t reached seven million square kilometres by November. The lacklustre Arctic ice formation comes after Arctic summer sea ice shrank to its second-lowest in the 37-year satellite record.

NASA scientist Walt Meier, a sea ice researcher, attributes the poor condition of sea ice cover now to the lack of older, multi-year ice. “This older ice is becoming weaker because there’s less of it and the remaining old ice is more broken up and thinner, so that bulwark is not as good as it used to be,” he said in a NASA report on Arctic sea ice.



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http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674climate_watchers_detect_arctic_sea_ice_extent_slump_above_norm_temps/

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1. This is very scary news -

And it won't change with a single election. All we can hope is that the world WILL work together to slow it down.