1.0Climate Change Dispatchhttps://climatechangedispatch.comThomas Richardhttps://climatechangedispatch.com/author/ccdeditor/Arctic Ice Decline: A New "Pause"?rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="mI1o3qtGkT"><a href="https://climatechangedispatch.com/arctic-ice-decline-a-new-pause/">Arctic Ice Decline: A New “Pause”?</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://climatechangedispatch.com/arctic-ice-decline-a-new-pause/embed/#?secret=mI1o3qtGkT" width="600" height="338" title="“Arctic Ice Decline: A New “Pause”?” — Climate Change Dispatch" data-secret="mI1o3qtGkT" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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The decline in Arctic sea ice has become an iconic symbol of global warming. You don't have to look far on the internet to find predictions by scientists, campaigners and commentators about how soon the region will become ice free in the summer. Unfortunately for those predictions, the Arctic ice has not been listening. The Arctic sea ice has probably reached its greatest extent for this year. It usually occurs at the end of March – last year it was March 21st. There have been some reports that this year's maximum extent was the lowest since satellite monitoring began in 1979, and it certainly looks low hovering around 13 million km2 for over a month, see Fig 1 (click on image to enlarge). But looking back over past behavior its maximum extent was similar last year and in 2011 and 2005-7 (Fig 2). Hence this year's extent is not that unusual being similar to that observed ten years ago!https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics7_Arctic-Sea-Ice.jpg