Sea ice melt begins in the inner #Arctic Ocean basin as we move towards summer. Current extent loss is nearly a month earlier than average.
Each line represents one year from 1979 [dark] to 2017 [light]. 2018 is shown in red. Daily data via @NSIDC.
Janos Pasztor...climate intervention governance issues are sophisticated and tricky...but can we really wait 60 years until the climate is 4 degrees warmer to figure it out?
@theAGU#AGU2017@ASUplanetworks
Arctic report card 2017: https://t.co/2lzWVbuXKU
The Arctic shows no sign of returning to reliably frozen region of recent past decades, scientists said.