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Global warming: Study shows Arctic sea ice melt season lengthening five days per decade
2014-03-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Voice: Averaged across the Arctic, the melt season is lengthening by five days each decade, with much of the change coming in the fall, when a warmer ocean simply takes longer to freeze than in the past. The extent of sea ice in the Arctic has been declining for the last four decades, said University College London researcher Julienne Stroeve, part of a research team that studied satellite data to track sea ice trends in the age of global warming. The data confirm that the Arctic Ocean absorbing...
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