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• UPDATED: NZ Antarctic research “debunks sceptics”, claims 1.5m sea level rise

  
  Australian Climate Madness — Authority: 139
  It will be interesting to see what the sceptic community makes of this: New Zealand scientists say massive ice shelves are protecting Antarctica from experiencing the same rapid decline in sea ice as the Arctic. The research team says the discovery further debunks the claims of sceptics who have pointed to the ...
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• Extraordinary September Arctic sea ice reductions and their relationships with storm behavior over 1979–2008

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 139
  Geophysical Research Letters , 36 (2009) L19715; doi: 10.1029/2009GL039810. Extraordinary September Arctic sea ice reductions and their relationships with storm behavior over 1979–2008 ...
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• Teen hunter found trapped on ice floe

  
  Sports & recreation - sports-rec.marc8.com — Authority: 458
  Battling hypothermia and freezing skin, a trapped teenage hunter was forced to shoot and kill a polar bear as he waited for more than a day to be rescued from a large chunk of drifting sea ice in the Canadian North.
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• State of the Arctic – 11/9/09

  
  Weatherdem's Weblog — Authority: 126
  The state of the Arctic ice in November 2009 is the worst of any November in recorded history.  Arctic areal sea ice extent didn’t break the 2007 record for the absolute minimum, but it has never been this low in November.  Further, the extent continues to be nowhere near the climatological average, just like it ...
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• Nov. 6 2009: Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low Extent

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 547
  Yesterday, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean reached a record low for its date. Ice covered the Arctic Ocean in a smaller area on November 6, 2009 than in any other year on November 6 since observations began in 1979: During the entire year of 2009 so far, the extent of sea ice has been more than 2 ...
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• Wadhams on sea ice

  
  Stoat — Authority: 665
  Nothing new, but M pointed me at Greenman on sea ice which has a quote from Wadhams (starts around 5:00, quote around 5:20 I think) that is the "the arctic will be ice free in summer in 20 years" or words to that effect (which got noted in my Arctic to be ice-free in summer? . I still dont believe it, not that ...
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• Arctic warming goes with the floe

  
  Watts Up With That? — Authority: 730
  Past Arctic Warming Also Created by Currents Guest posted by Jeff Id of The Air Vent The bear is fine, dont freak out. Image: Met Office UK I’ve stated here on several occasions that the ‘Recent’ Arctic ice thinning is more likely a current change issue rather than a temperature issue.  Differences ...
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• FN/NaPodPoMo4 / News Update

  
  Futurism Now Radio — Authority: 118
  News from Futurism Now, and episode #4 of the NaPodPoMo podcast marathon.What are Senators up to on the climate bill? Senate Republicans Stall Climate Legislation!  Story here.Panic at 2:00 am!   Where is the ice?Utilities Drop Plans for Big Stone II Coal Plant, clearing the way for wind power.   Great news!Al ...
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• Field Camp

  
  Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists — Authority: 415
  MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA– We’ve just returned from 2 weeks at Bay of Sails, where we were deploying SCINI to look at iceberg scours on the seafloor and the destruction, and recovery, of benthic communities there. All our high-tech science and engineering was supported out of the most primitive of camps. With ...
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• You Can’t Control the Weather

  
  Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists — Authority: 415
  BARROW, ALASKA– Just after the last dispatch, a strong wind storm settled in across the Arctic north of the Alaskan coast. For five days in a row we woke up hoping the wind would subside enough to allow us to fly for bear recaptures, only to find the wind remained steady at 25-40 knots through every day. The ...
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• More Bad News for Arctic Sea Ice

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 474
  A recent expedition to the Beaufort Sea revealed that “multiyear” Arctic sea ice is in effect, nonexistent, Reuters reports . Multiyear ice has “stiffer” composition than first year ice, and makes navigation through Arctic regions extremely difficult, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center ...
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• NASA Arctic Satellite About to Die? Here Comes Operation Ice Bridge

  
  Twilight Earth — Authority: 511
  NASA, and the world, have a problem. It’s ICESAT-I (Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite) which provides critical data on rapidly changing ice volume and thickness, is going to go offline this year. The launch of its replacement, the ICESat-II, isn’t scheduled until 2014-15. This creates a large data gap in ...
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• Arctic Sea Ice Extent, October 27 2009: 6 Standard Deviations Below the 1979-2000 Mean

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 547
  The latest data on sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean includes information up through October 27, 2009: Source: National Snow and Ice Data Center The National Snow and Ice Data Center’s standard for measuring a notable deviation from the 1979-2000 sea ice average is two standard deviations, which is a ...
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• Why The Vanishing Polar Ice Cap Will Impact You

  
  Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal — Authority: 420
  The folks at the National Snow and Ice Data Center have released some new data on the polar ice as we head into late autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. The ice pack is retreating at a rate of about 11.2% per decade, and Dr. Mark Serezze, the director of the NSIDC says that we are [...]
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• U.S. Issues Alarming Arctic Report Card

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  You may recall the recent post by TakePart’s Ciara O’Rourke who wrote about evidence that the Arctic could lose its summer ice cap in as little as ten years. Well, the Arctic continues to make headlines. Last Thursday, the U.S. issued its Arctic Report Card . The report says that global warming is melting ...
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• ARCTIC MELTING: “Climate change is happening faster in the Arctic than any other place on Earth — and with wide-ranging consequences”

  
  The Conservation Report — Authority: 487
  Summer Arctic ice could completely disappear within a few decades say researchers, and changes to Arctic environments are increasingly becoming more evident and severe. According to researchers, the Arctic is “ a warmer place with less thick and more mobile sea ice, warmer and fresher ocean water, and increased ...
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• Will The Designation Of Polar Bear Critical Habitat Grow More Ice?

  
  Black Bear Blog — Authority: 524
  Sounds like a dumb question but isn’t that the logic behind the original listing by the Bush administration of the polar bear to the “threatened” status under the Endangered Species Act? For the first time in history, government used faulty computer models and speculation to administer the Act and the result was ...
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• Doing science, with sea ice

  
  More Grumbine Science — Authority: 414
  Every so often, I commit an act of science. Like most acts of science, you almost certainly never heard about it. Like many, however, life was eventually improved for some people somewhere. Im rather pleased about that side of it. What was at hand was, on one hand (it does help to have many hands if youre in ...
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• US designates key areas of polar bear habitat across Alaska

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 441
  We have long forgotten the phrase live and let live. It about time we start taking it seriously and show some humanity towards animals. An effort by the U.S. Department of the Interior certainly deserves appreciation. The department has today announced that areas across Alaska have been designated for polar bear ...
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• Good news on polar bear critical habitat proposal

  
  Demarcated Landscapes — Authority: 110
  Were pleased that US Fish and Wildlife Services proposed designating 128 million acres of critical habitat for the imperiled polar bear. And really, we want to just be happy, and pretend like its all going to be OK. But, lets face it: Unless we stop carbon emissions, 200,000 square miles of habitat wont be enough- ...
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