Most people keeping an eye on global warming know ice around the arctic is melting faster than at any time in recorded history.
Just not how fast.
New York Times reports that "thick, durable [ice] floes that were at least 10 years old dropped to 2 percent this spring from 80 percent in the spring of 1987..."
Such ferocious change may have natural causes, as well as manmade, but scientists now warn that the same forces could help heal ice gaps - the size of six Californias - or make them much worse.
Climate Change - Sea Ice - Arctic - New York Times
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