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reblogging from Nevin's Arctic Sea Ice blog:

Yet another destructive hurricane has hit the US, following a highly unusual path, smashing precipitation records all around. Dr Jennifer Francis breaks it down in this excellent video from The Real News Network (please, share):

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Originally posted to Dreamwidth, were there are
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there is open water north of Greenland

Crazy Jet Stream

First link goes to the twitter feed of Lars Kaleschke; second one goes to the twitter feed of Randall Gates.

Write ups by Sea Ice Blog and RobertScribbler


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"A simplified way to think of extent versus area is to imagine a slice of swiss cheese. Extent would be a measure of the edges of the slice of cheese and all of the space inside it. Area would be the measure of where there is cheese only, not including the holes. That is why if you compare extent and area in the same time period, extent is always ( Read more... )

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What's happening in the Arctic right now will effect the future of all humans -- as in, if we're going to make it out of this century alive.

Here are the Cliff Notes to the new study Arctic Resilience Report. There is a very good graphic on page 80, Fig 3.3.
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It's the beginning of the freezing season. Here are three posters on Neven's Arctic Sea Ice blog forum:

Tigertown wrote: The fast freeze seems to have hit a bit of a stall. Any guesses as to why ( Read more... )

"Some of the models suggest that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months will be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years." Al Gore, U.N. Climate Summit, Copenhagen, 2009 ( Read more... )