Arctic sea ice down to second-lowest extent

From the National Snow and Ice Data Center: Despite cooler temperatures and ice-favoring conditions, long-term decline continues. On the left are a series of satellite images from each September since 1979, showing the year's minimum Arctic sea ice extent. For comparison, the image at right shows the September 2008 ice extent. The pink line indicates the 1979-2000 average minimum extent. Arctic sea ice extent during the 2008 melt season dropped to the second-lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1979, reaching the lowest point in its annual cycle of melt and growth on September 14, 2008. Average sea ice extent over the month of September, a standard measure in the scientific study of Arctic sea ice, was 4.67 million square kilometers (1.80 million square miles). The record monthly low, set in 2007, was 4.28 million square kilometers (1.65 million square miles); the now-third-lowest monthly value, set in 2005, was 5.57 million square kilometers (2.15 million square miles). The 2008 season strongly reinforces the thirty-year downward trend in Arctic ice extent. The 2008 September low was 34% below the long-term average from 1979 to 2000 and only 9% greater than the 2007 record. For more information, see http://nsidc.org/news/press/20081002_seaice_pressrelease.html.

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[sydneydoc]

CO2 enrichment. Web site

hydrofarm  articles co2_enrichment

[MrJarth]

@sydneydoc ohhh you are talking about that... but where does it say "half current CO2 levels" link?

[sydneydoc]

@MrJarth

Anyone who is not totally stupid will find it easily on the net. Plant growth stops at half current CO2 levels. We die of starvation.

[MrJarth]

@sydneydoc link me this amazing and out of place fact.

[sydneydoc]

@MrJarth

Look at the data.

[sydneydoc]

@MrJarth

Why do you think it is not stable ?

Did you know that we would all die at half current levels ?

[MrJarth]

@sydneydoc omg no fucking shit bro? we need Co2 to live. but it needs to be in a stable cycle like it has been for a very long time now. until industrialization that is.

[MrJarth]

@sydneydoc tropical cyclones aren't in a 30 year low in Australia alone we had 5

[sydneydoc]

CO2 levels in the atm have been 7 times as high since mammals walked the earth. The 360 scam is utter nonsense.

[NotOnlySelfLover]

@sydneydoc The CO2 we exhale has 100 times the concentration in the atmosphere? Probably, but it's directly near our faces and our bodies are small compared to the air ocean which the atmosphere is. it can handle it. However, our industries are much more powerful than ourselves and eject a lot more undesirable stuff, including CO2. Are we able to create a nuclear winter? Yes. So I assume a global warming triggered by gases like CO2 is also quite realistic.