Overview of current sea ice conditions
September 5th, 2007 by SecureCare“Sea ice extent continues to decline, and is now at 4.42 million square kilometers (1.70 million square miles), falling yet further below the record absolute minimum of 5.32 million square kilometers (2.05 million square miles) that occurred on September 20–21, 2005…” Full Slice
September 7th, 2007 at 6:43 am
Even though I’m unqualified to make this conjecture, I wonder whether this melt is caused global warming or local warming caused by the massive increase in human activity in the Arctic region.
Yeah yeah, I know - Act globally, there is no locally.
September 7th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Sounds like a straight forward thermodynamics issue. Do the math & see how the numbers work out.
Everything is “local”…