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XemaSab

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31. Interactive chart of ice area since 1979

Wed Jul 24, 2013, 08:35 PM

Jul 2013

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/arctic.sea.ice.interactive.html

Last year was BAD.

Note well that 2007 was WAY below any previous year, and we've never recovered from it. If you take out 2009, you can see the severity of the problem clearly.

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North Pole Now a Lake [View all] hedgehog Jul 2013 OP

An ice-free arctic will alter jet stream patterns and produce extreme weather at mid-lattitudes jpak Jul 2013 #1

Doesn't sound too healthy. dipsydoodle Jul 2013 #2

Methane will leak at a higher rate, trapping more heat. alfredo Jul 2013 #18

You mean like we've already been seeing the past two years? NickB79 Jul 2013 #24

The Jet Stream is ALREADY behaving strangely. bvar22 Jul 2013 #56

We are now entering uncharted territory 99th_Monkey Jul 2013 #3

+1 Auggie Jul 2013 #4

Yes, sadly Rosa Luxemburg Jul 2013 #41

image.. DCBob Jul 2013 #5

Thanks for the pic - will make a great billboard piece 'brought to you by the GOP' & co. toby jo Jul 2013 #9

Glad I won't be around to see the latter part of this century. onehandle Jul 2013 #6

Soylent Green ain't fiction; it's a menu, baby! Blue_Tires Jul 2013 #50

Am I the only one who read to the bottom of the quote? eggplant Jul 2013 #7

I believe the writer reversed the data - hedgehog Jul 2013 #8

He used "ice melt" improperly. "Ice extent" would be correct. nt GliderGuider Jul 2013 #11

One year's data mean little. One needs to see the long term trends. alfredo Jul 2013 #19

Here's the long-term trend, in video form NickB79 Jul 2013 #25

I keep getting an error alfredo Jul 2013 #57

Interactive chart of ice area since 1979 XemaSab Jul 2013 #31

Fuck. Us 20-somethings won't have a planet. nt AllINeedIsCoffee Jul 2013 #10

Nope... it's gonna be interesting. Agschmid Jul 2013 #12

You betcha. AllINeedIsCoffee Jul 2013 #13

Me too... Agschmid Jul 2013 #15

It's a prequel to WALL-E alfredo Jul 2013 #20

Watch out you'll end up with this... Agschmid Jul 2013 #21

That's so cool. Maybe I should watch all of them alfredo Jul 2013 #28

Oh cut the drama. cstanleytech Jul 2013 #42

Life will continue NickB79 Jul 2013 #48

So many Evangelical Christians; greiner3 Jul 2013 #45

that would be the do`t give a fuck evangelical christians madrchsod Jul 2013 #47

No, and I'm Delphinus Jul 2013 #51

Thats not good Iliyah Jul 2013 #14

We're fucked sakabatou Jul 2013 #16

I'm waiting for some jerk to claim the North Pole has ALWAYS melted like this. Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2013 #17

It's a hoax Lugal Zaggesi Jul 2013 #22

Its Obama's fault too. DCBob Jul 2013 #23

That goes without saying Lugal Zaggesi Jul 2013 #36

merry xmas corkhead Jul 2013 #26

What about the elves? liberal N proud Jul 2013 #27

Every Christmas, NORAD tracks Santa bananas Jul 2013 #35

They don't know how to swim! They_Live Jul 2013 #43

Watch GASLAND 2 FREE Online to see how we are making it WORSE! (LINK) usGovOwesUs3Trillion Jul 2013 #29

Colonize outer space... or perish. zonkers Jul 2013 #30

I feel sorry for the polar bears...they are going to go extinct! Auntie Bush Jul 2013 #32

Followed shortly by millions of humans starving NickB79 Jul 2013 #39

I figured it would get to this defacto7 Jul 2013 #33

Sea ice area XemaSab Jul 2013 #34

Holy fuck. nt NickB79 Jul 2013 #40

Uh, I would like to know why that photo is indicating red dots (a ~60% concentration of sea ice) Heywood J Jul 2013 #49

Error in the sensors XemaSab Jul 2013 #54

With two months (more or less) to go . . . hatrack Jul 2013 #55

This message was self-deleted by its author Lugal Zaggesi Jul 2013 #37

Lake Inconvenient Truth daleo Jul 2013 #38

Don't worry. Gawd has this. It's 11-Dimensional, environmental rope-a-dope. Just wait. You'll see... blkmusclmachine Jul 2013 #44

today it was warmer in the yukon than it was in chicago madrchsod Jul 2013 #46

Glad I'm almost 50 PasadenaTrudy Jul 2013 #52

It is a race to see who/what will end up killing the most humans. Socal31 Jul 2013 #53