http://www.metafilter.com/tags/cryosphere Posts tagged with 'cryosphere' at MetaFilter. Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:21:19 -0800 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:21:19 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/64504/The%2DPolar%2DSlush%2DCap <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003873003_arcticice07m.html">"In an average August between 1979 and 2000,</a> the Arctic Ocean was covered with about 3 million square miles of sea ice, according to the <a href="http://www.nsidc.org/news/press/2007_seaiceminimum/20070810_index.html">National Snow and Ice Data Center.</a> By Labor Day this year, the total had shrunk to <a href="http://www.nsidc.org/news/press/2007_seaiceminimum/images/20070904_augtrend.jpg">a little more than half that,</a> <a href="http://www.nsidc.org/news/press/2007_seaiceminimum/images/20070828_concentration.png">shattering the previous record low set in 2005."</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64504 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:21:19 -0800 arctic climate climatechange cryosphere seaice [expletive deleted]