NASA video: astounding arctic sea ice melt

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Here’s new NASA satellite video showing the astounding loss of Arctic seaย ice.

From NASA: The 2007 Arctic summer sea ice has reached the lowest extent of perennial ice cover on record – nearly 25% less than the previous low set inย 2005.

The area of the perennial ice has been steadily decreasing since the satellite record began in 1979, at a rate of about 10% per decade. But the 2007 minimum, reached on September 14, is far below the previous record made in 2005 and is about 38% lower than the climatological average. Such a dramatic loss has implications for ecology, climate andย industry.

And here’s an oil and gas industry PR flak in the form of Chris Horner, โ€œSenior Fellowโ€ at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, trying to spin this inconvenient truth on โ€œThe Climate Misinformationย Channel:โ€

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