Jed, Here is the source of the story: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/arctic-seaicemax-2013.html
Here is a link to the ice satellite data in various charts and maps: http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/sea-ice-page/ On the other hand, this news story appears to report the the polar (haha) opposite: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/12/sea-ice-news-volume-4-1-arctic-ice-gain-sets-a-new-record/ - Brad On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is a depressing article in Japanese: > > http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/eco/news/20130404-OYT1T00916.htm > > The headline means roughly: > > North pole ice pack continues to shrink; loss this year about as large as > the land area of the Japanese archipelago > > My summary (not an exact translation): > > NASA has been monitoring the size of the polar ice pack for 35 years. The > size of the ice pack increases during the winter months. This year the > total size was the fifth smallest on record. > > This year's cold weather was the shortest on record. The total area of the > icepack continues to decrease. > > The area of the reduced size of the icepack is roughly 15 million square > kilometers. It has decreased by 370,000 square kilometers which is close to > the total land area of Japan. The decline in ice pack size has rapidly > increased since 2004. NASA says this is being caused by global warming. > > - Jed
