Arctic Sea Ice Hits 2nd-Lowest Level

In September of this year, the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean declined to the second-lowest extent on record. Satellite data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center showed that the summertime sea ice cover came very close to a new record low.
Joe Comiso, senior scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center said the continued low minimum sea ice levels fits into the large-scale decline pattern has been occurring over the past thirty years.
“The sea ice is not only declining, the pace of the decline is becoming more drastic,” Comiso said. “The older, thicker ice is declining faster than the rest, making for a more vulnerable perennial ice cover.”
Climate prediction models once predicted that the Arctic could lose almost all of its summer ice cover by 2100, but more recently, the ice level has declined faster than the models first showed.

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