For one thing,
arctic areas like Svalbard are underlain by permafrost, or permanently frozen ground.
Not exact matches
If some suitably huge
area of the
arctic is totally free of ice this summer, could it then be claimed with confidence that this was the first time such a large region was free of ice in «x» years, where x is some largeish number
like 50,000 or 100,000?
Yes I am, i know it's strange to some people but I
like to read and digest information from all sources and then make up my own mind about things.I think it's a sensible question to ask why antarctic ice is increasing when
arctic ice is decreasing but I understand that might be a topic for another post as it will probably, as Gavin indicated, involve many different
areas for discussion.
Statistics Canada — Average
area covered by total (all) sea ice during summer from 1968 to 2010 for sea ice regions of
Arctic Domain — EnviroStats — See how clear the trends are in all of Canada's
arctic regions: down, down, down at something
like 7 or 8 percent a decade.