Thursday, June 25, 2009

Global Warming Takes a Break in the Arctic

Here is a post by Joseph D'Aleo on the Watts Up With That blog about this year's arctic ice melt... it is late. I've added the bold to highlight the key bit:

The average arctic temperature is still not above (take your pick) 32°F 0°C 273.15°K – this the latest date in fifty years of record keeping that this has happened. Usually it is beginning to level off now and if it does so, it will stay near freezing on average in the arctic leading to still less melting than last summer which saw a 9% increase in arctic ice than in 2007.

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Along the edge of the arctic, Ross Hays who worked for CNN and then NASA who last year posted from Antartica sent this note to me “They have me working in arctic Sweden until mid July. One of the Esrange staff members told me that so far Kiruna had had the coldest June in 150 years!”

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