In early 2017, the Arctic, Antarctic and
Global Sea Ice Area Extent were each at the lowest level in the data set that starts 1979.
Not exact matches
The
extent of
global sea ice coverage reached its smallest
area ever recorded in 2016, new data show.
As of January 17, for instance, the
global extent (
area) of
sea ice is at its smallest point in potentially thousands of years.
We'll see very soon, if Wyatt is correct then no
global temperature record nor a record low
sea ice extent,
area or volume within the next year.
Then, in the beginning days of February, the Arctic
sea ice extent and
area both broke records again, as the entire
global sea ice area entered the second - lowest range ever to have been recorded.
Record droughts in many
areas of the world, the loss of arctic
sea ice — what you see is an increasing trend that is superimposed on annual variablity (no bets on what happens next year, but the five - to - ten year average in
global temperatures,
sea surface temperatures, ocean heat content — those will increase — and
ice sheet volumes, tropical glacier volumes,
sea ice extent will decrease.