Reduction in the extent of the summer sea ice is one of the best tools to probe the global warming effect, because can be decoupled from natural variation effects. We can see that the ice cap is reducing from year to year as a general trend.
Credits: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.
Amazing, it gets more and more compelling every year.
I have a humble side project, an app for iPhone that tracks and visualizes melt over the last 30 years.
Arctic Watch
Check it out if you like!
Hope it helps!
EnderW1gg1n 5 months ago