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Higher temps and yet strangely enough the ice cover today is 28% larger than this time last year.............
Which of course is a somewhat different result than the ice free 2008 arctic predicted earlier this year!
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The report noted that 2007 was the warmest year on record the Arctic, leading to a record loss of sea ice. This year's sea ice melt was second only to 2007.
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Now with a cooler cycles in some areas the rise in temperatures has slowed, but Overland said he expects that it will speed up again when the next natural warming cycle comes around.
So these record high temperatures are coinciding with what should be an overall cooling trend, given that we're at the low of the 11-year sunspot cycle and the cooling stage of teh ENSO oscillation.