Scientific American - Arctic Sea Ice: What, Why, and What Next

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1. Extrapolate the following paragraph, ...

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and the feedback loops present now would have to cease for 2030 to be realistic.

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When we look at volume instead of area, we don’t see that half of all the ice has disappeared since 1980. Instead, we see that almost 80% of the September ice has disappeared in that time. And most of that loss has been in the last 12 years. 70% of the ice volume we saw in 2000 has disappeared. Less than one third of that ice volume – from just 12 years ago – is what we see today.

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