"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7503060.stm

I remember hand-plotting the data from these ice-floe stations in the 60s.

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023


There are 2 points I would like to make about the current state of the
arctic sea-ice.

The first is at:-

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/i...s/N_timeseries.

This shows that the sea-ice is disappearing less rapidly than in 2007 and
secondly:-

http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/...&sd=25&sy=2007

The ice at 10 July seemed to be melting less quickly along the north coast
of Asia than last year.I realise that there may
be errors in the way the evidence is collected and that not too much should
be read into this relatively small
piece of data anyway. Nevertheless, it is intriguing and it will be
interesting to see how the rest of the melting season develops.

Peter Clarke
Ewell, Epsom