Extent of Arctic sea ice reached its low point of the year Sunday, the second lowest ever

Extent of Arctic sea ice reached its low point of the year Sunday, the second lowest ever

British adventurer/explorer Ben Saunders spent a lot of time in the Arctic. On foot. Hauling his stuff behind him. He started in 2001. After three years, he could give a firsthand report that the Arctic was getting warmer. In May 2004, he gave up a ski trip from Russia via the North Pole to Canada in May because it was too hot: the average temperature was just -1.4°F, compared to -21.4°F just three years before. 

NASA reported similar results. That same year, researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at my alma mater, the University of Colorado, reported that the extent of Arctic ice had hit a record low.  Also in 2004 the Arctic Council’s International Arctic Science Committee issued its 2004 Arctic Climate Impact Assessment showing a grim future for the circumpolar Inuit people as a result of climate change. All four of these assessments were ridiculed by climate change deniers and pretty much ignored by the media. All four were right.

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