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Source: Yahoo
Quoted from article, "The ice melt area went from 40 percent of the ice sheet to 97 percent in four days, according to NASA. Until now, the most extensive melt seen by satellites in the past three decades was about 55 percent."
Recent Photos of the event.
Hopefully this event was not accelerated by global warming.
Addtional Information Update: Thank you {CC}StealthBlue
![[image loading]](http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/2000/08/Figure1-350x417.png)
Following the new record low recorded on August 26, Arctic sea ice extent continued to drop and is now below 4.00 million square kilometers (1.54 million square miles). Compared to September conditions in the 1980s and 1990s, this represents a 45% reduction in the area of the Arctic covered by sea ice. At least one more week likely remains in the melt season.
Throughout the month of August, Arctic sea ice extent tracked below levels observed in 2007, leading to a new record low for the month of 4.72 million square kilometers (1.82 million square miles), as assessed over the period of satellite observations,1979 to present. Extent was unusually low for all sectors of the Arctic, except the East Greenland Sea where the ice edge remained near its normal position. On August 26, the 5-day running average for ice extent dropped below the previous record low daily extent, observed on September 18, 2007, of 4.17 million square kilometers (1.61 million square miles). By the end of the month, daily extent had dropped below 4.00 million square kilometers (1.54 million square miles). Typically, the melt season ends around the second week in September .
Source found by {CC}StealthBlue
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Well some people "politically" arguee climate change, I wonder how are they going to explain this. Sad that such a huge problem is not being adressed correctly it already may be too late.
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Global warming doesn't exist the sun has times when it creates large solar waves and the earth gets warmer and times when it gets colder.
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Time for someone to start building that Ark
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Belgium16168 Posts
Things like this make me see even more how fucked we are as a species since there's no large-scale effort to stop this.
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Wasn't the tagline for the movie The Day After Tomorrow, "It's all true, it just hasn't happened yet."?
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I'm gonna be on beach front property soon.
Boo Ya
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Of course it was accelerated and precipitated by climate change. But it's like attributing hurricanes to climate change, statistically there will be many many more giant hurricanes, but you can't attribute a specific event to it because the occur at different scales of causality.
It's like if you have a window open at night, and you turn on a light-- many more bugs will be in the house than if the light was off, but you can't tell if any given bug came in because the light was on or not.
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On July 25 2012 09:32 Queequag101 wrote:
Global warming doesn't exist the sun has times when it creates large solar waves and the earth gets warmer and times when it gets colder.
Badly worded. But probably an element of truth to this. I'm certain mass consumption of fossil fuels contributes something to the overall heating of the planet, but I reeeeaaally doubt it's enough to cause a measurable change. But, what the fuck do I know? I'm just some jackass on the internet that has done like no research. Just a gut feeling. Heh.
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"Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time," says Lora Koenig, a Goddard glaciologist and a member of the research team analyzing the satellite data. "But if we continue to observe melting events like this in upcoming years, it will be worrisome."
"Researchers have not yet determined whether this extensive melt event will affect the overall volume of ice loss this summer and contribute to sea level rise."
tl;dr: nothing to see here, move along.
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But , but if those useless ice is gone we can finally gather the oil there and make money . Jokes aside the question if global warming exists is pointless . Even if the effect doesn't exist , the worst thing measures against it could achieve is a cleaner and probably healthier environment .
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The future is clear, we will all one day live in Greenland, our newly thawed utopia.
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Huh... weird...
It's definitely not a result of solar activity, the amount of activity you would need for something of this magnitude would knock out communications everywhere, and NASA would definitely have said something. Sounds more like climate destabilization (possibly from global warming), basically a big blob of warm air going where it's not supposed to go.
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On July 25 2012 09:49 starfries wrote:
Huh... weird...
It's definitely not a result of solar activity, the amount of activity you would need for something of this magnitude would knock out communications everywhere, and NASA would definitely have said something. Sounds more like climate destabilization (possibly from global warming), basically a big blob of warm air going where it's not supposed to go.
I just ignore the denialists. Evidence hasn't worked until now, it likely won't work now. 
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Wow. That must be a crazy amount of water.
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huh, that's weird. Someone less ignorant than me, should we be scared? xD
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You guys have it all wrong.
It's just a natural event. I mean it's still snowing in some parts of the world! Global Warming can't explain that!
I mean, come on. What if we make the world a cleaner and more sustainable place to live in for no reason?!
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