Look at the chart from the Sky article (red boxes and text added by the Talkshop). Where’s the supposedly rapid – ‘3.5 times the rest of the world’ and ‘12% per decade’ – rate of summer sea ice melting since about 2008?
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The rapidly melting Arctic is opening up an unspoilt region to shipping, military and oil and minerals activity, experts have warned – as Foreign Secretary David Lammy tours the region to assess changing security threats, says Sky News.
The Arctic is warming 3.5 times faster than the global average, scientists have warned, raising new security threats for the UK.
Melting Arctic ice is opening up more routes for shipping and military vessels, and the potential to drill for new reserves of gas, oil and natural minerals in an otherwise virtually unspoilt ecosystem.
The continent has long been warming faster than the rest of the world.
As the sea ice disappears, its white surface that reflects sunlight gives way to darker ocean underneath that absorbs the heat instead. [Talkshop comment – very little heat or there wouldn’t be any sea ice there in the first place].
Full article here.
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Image credit: NSIDC/NASA/Sky News
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May 28, 2025 at 03:16AM
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