{"id":3617,"date":"2016-05-12T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T01:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/12\/fractures-seen-in-rapidly-melting-arctic-sea-ice-and-its-only-may\/"},"modified":"2016-05-12T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T01:20:45","slug":"fractures-seen-in-rapidly-melting-arctic-sea-ice-and-its-only-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/12\/fractures-seen-in-rapidly-melting-arctic-sea-ice-and-its-only-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Fractures seen in rapidly melting Arctic sea ice, and it's only May"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Even accounting for the accelerating pace of Arctic climate change, sea ice loss in the Far North is running well ahead of schedule. This may signal a near record or record low sea ice extent to come in September.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fractures in the ice cover are evident north of Greenland, which Mark Serreze, the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, told Mashable<\/i> are “quite unusual” for this time of year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“To me, it suggests a thinner, weaker ice cover,” Serreze said.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: This is the most compelling climate change visualization we\u2019ve ever seen<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In general, the Arctic has warmed at about twice the rate of the rest of the world, due largely to feedbacks between melting sea ice and the ability of newly-open ocean waters to absorb more heat, and then melt more ice.\u00a0<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Even accounting for the accelerating pace of Arctic climate change, sea ice loss in the Far North is running well ahead of schedule. This may signal a near record or record low sea ice extent to come in September. Fractures … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1193,1394,2820,960,2821],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-extreme-weather","tag-global-warming","tag-greenland","tag-science","tag-sea-ice-minimum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}