"The Arctic has already lost 40% of its summertime ice cover.
When you imagine Santa’s workshop, you might picture it on solid ground. But at the North Pole, what looks like snowy land is actually a sheet of ice floating on the Arctic Ocean. And as the climate warms, it’s melting.
Walt Meier is a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. He says the amount of ice in the Arctic has always ebbed and flowed.
“The ice grows in the wintertime and it melts in the summer,” he says. “But we’ve seen it melting back more and more on average.”
He says that over the last four decades, the Arctic has lost over 40% of its ice cover in the summertime." ～Daisy Simmons @YaleClimateConnections
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Walt Meier is a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. He says the amount of ice in the Arctic has always ebbed and flowed.
“The ice grows in the wintertime and it melts in the summer,” he says. “But we’ve seen it melting back more and more on average.”
He says that over the last four decades, the Arctic has lost over 40% of its ice cover in the summertime." ～Daisy Simmons @YaleClimateConnections
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