Climate
Extreme Heat Takes Arctic Sea Ice To Record Lows
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Extreme warmth at the North Pole is bringing Arctic sea ice extent to record low levels, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reports, threatening Arctic fauna and global weather. Sea ice extent has been plummeting through the first two weeks of July, at a rate averaging nearly 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) per day. That’s the size of Pennsylvania each day, the size of Iran over the first two weeks. “To date in July, air temperatures over the North Pole were 6 to 8 degrees Celsius (11 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than normal”:
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