Arctic Sea Ice at Lowest Point in Thousands of Years

Posted by Jimalakirti in Climate Change
at 8:58 am on Saturday, 5 June 2010

(Live Science, June 4, 12010)
By Andrea Thompson
posted: 04 June 2010 09:10 am ET

he shrinking amount of sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean today is the smallest it has been in the last few thousand years, a new study suggests.

The sea ice that normally covers huge swaths of the Arctic Ocean has been retreating and thinning over the last few decades, due to the amplified warming at the North Pole, which is a consequence of the buildup of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere.

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    Comment by Jo at 10:18 am on 7 June 2010 at

    From the article: ‘The sea ice that normally covers huge swaths of the Arctic Ocean has been retreating and thinning over the last few decades, due to the amplified warming at the North Pole…..’
    So wouldn’t this amplified north pole warming mean more moisture added to the atmosphere, as possible cause of all the heavy rain and flooding in New England & along parts of the east coast past two years, and increasingly along the northwest US coast as well?
    Comment?