Always good to check on contracting area and volume of Arctic Sea ice against a macro backdrop of onging trend increases in land and sea average surface temperatures.
the following is sourced from NOAA, the US’ meteorological service. A longer reference is available after the graphic.
posters on this thread might notice this post isn’t a weather report.
here’s a quick question for the bunnies who double as climate change deniers. Is there more Arctic Sea ice now compared to 40 years ago, or less?
Go on, have a lash, you know whatever you say, you’ll always be right. Because You Said So.
NOAA:
”The April 2021 Arctic sea ice extent of 13.84 million square km (5.34 million square miles) was 850,000 square km (330,000 square miles), or about the size of Pakistan, below average.
” This was the sixth smallest April sea ice extent in the 43-year record. April 2021 marked the 20th consecutive April with below-average sea ice extent. Sea ice extent was below average in the Barents, Bering, and Labrador seas and near average elsewhere.
” Barents Sea had its fifth smallest April sea ice extent.”
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, State of the Climate: Global Snow and Ice for April 2021, published online May 2021, retrieved on June 14, 2021 from https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global-snow/202104.
