New York Times: Last summer, after an extraordinary storm swirled across the Arctic Ocean, churning sea ice like some great Waring blender, much was speculated about the cyclone`s role in the enormous retreat of sea ice that followed.
A new modeling study by the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington, replaying last summer`s Arctic Ocean ice conditions with and without the storm, shows that the short-term influence of all that ice churning probably played almost no role in the final ice retreat...