Summer sea ice in Antarctica is the lowest on record

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This year the extent of summer sea ice in the Antarctic is the lowest on record. The Antarctic sea ice minimum marks the day – typically towards end of February – when sea ice reaches its smallest extent at the end of the summer melt season, before expanding again as the winter sets in. This year, sea ice extent contracted to 2.28m sq km on 13 February, according to data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Read full article

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HughJuanCoeurs
Must be all the excess hot air from Think, Voice, Enrique and Hepatia.
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