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Climate scientists (and communicators like me) have been telling you for years that Arctic Sea ice is dwindling so quickly that it might all be gone as soon as the end of this decade. Now a new research paper published in the American Geophysical Union journal points out that there has been NO statistical reduction in Arctic Sea ice surface area for the last two decades! So what’s going on?
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Reference Links:
Main Paper : Minimal Arctic Sea Ice Loss in the Last 20 Years, Consistent With Internal Climate Variability – England et al
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL116175
Article on Sea Ice volume
Info on 2025 Arctic Sea ice record low maximum
https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/analyses/arctic-sea-ice-sets-record-low-maximum-2025?utm
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202505
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5522
Previous papers on Arctic Sea ice minimum
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54508-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-023-00431-1
NSIDC Arctic Sea ice tracker
https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/sea-ice-tools/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph
US Navy Sea Ice Charts
https://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/GLBhycomcice1-12/navo/arc_list_arcticict.html
Professor Michel Tsamados
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/11855-michel-tsamados
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