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That’s why, even at the end of August, scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center weren’t quite ready to call how 2017 would shake out compared to previous summers. This year’s thinner, slushier ice is more vulnerable than the past’s thick, multi-year ice, and it melts out rapidly during a spike in temperature or intense cyclonic activity. Climatologists, for example, postulate that jet stream blocking, an effect hypothetically caused by a warming Arctic, could have stalled Hurrican e Harvey over Houston. That is not only likely bad news for the future of Arctic ice and polar ecosystems, but also for a stable global climate, which is highly influenced, and possibly unbalanced by events up North. So in spite of a slight rebound in summer extent, the average Arctic sea ice volume was still 47 percent below the 1979 to 2016 mean. Global sea ice area (Arctic and Antarctic) 1978 to 2017. Notably this July, the average sea ice thickness in the Arctic was equivalent to the lowest on record.
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Some scientists are now saying colloquially that the Arctic Ocean has in recent decades entered the “Thin Ice Age.” Since 1980, the average ice thickness come July has decreased by an estimated 120 centimeters (47 inches). Moreover, surface cover isn’t everything when it comes to the state of the Arctic - what experts say matters most is the total volume of ice - a combination of thickness and extent, and 2017 saw summer volumes among the lowest ever recorded. Still, while 2017’s summer melt season didn’t break the record, it falls far below the 1981 to 2010 median extent by over 1.58 million square kilometers (610,000 square miles). As of September 13, sea ice covered some 4.64 million square kilometers (1.79 million square miles) at its minimum, roughly 1.25 million square kilometers (482,000 square miles) more than record-setting year 2012. Photo by Jefferson Beck / NASAĪfter 16 months of consecutive record and near-record lows in late 2016 and early 2017, sea ice extent in the Arctic held fast over the summer thanks to more moderate weather and cooler temperatures. The sun reflects over thin sea ice and a few floating icebergs near the Denmark Strait off of eastern Greenland, as seen from NASA’s P-3B aircraft on Apthe record year for Arctic ice melt, so far. The Arctic ice is therefore showing no signs of recovery, scientists say, and its decline is likely continuing to impact the Earth’s weather in unpredictable and destabilizing ways.The Arctic set still another record that concerns scientists: no other 12-month period (September 2016 to August 2017) has had such persistently low sea ice extent.2017 saw summer volumes among the lowest ever recorded. However, that fact was overshadowed by another: experts say what matters most in the Arctic is the total volume of ice - a combination of thickness and extent.On September 13, at the summer minimum, sea ice covered 4.64 million square kilometers that’s 1.25 million square kilometers more than 2012. The decline of Arctic ice didn’t set a record this year, with sea ice extent coming in eighth after record-setting 2012.Battling extreme hunger, fatigue, and a polar bear attack, they finally arrive to find their ship crushed in the ice and the camp abandoned. The two men succeed in finding the proof that Greenland is one island, but returning to the ship takes longer and is much harder than expected. Leaving their crew behind with the ship, Mikkelsen sled across the ice with his inexperienced crew member, Iver Iversen (Joe Cole). In 1909, Denmark’s Alabama Expedition led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) was attempting to disprove the United States’ claim to North-Eastern Greenland, a claim that was rooted in the idea that Greenland was broken up into two different pieces of land. Here’s the official story synopsis from Deadline: It will tell the story of Mikkelsen’s expedition into Greenland in 1909. Netflix’s Against the Ice is an adaptation of Two Against the Ice, a posthumously published book by Danish polar explorer and writer Ejnar Mikkelsen. Ejnar Mikkelsen in 1907 and his book Two Against the Ice, published posthumously in 2003