How to pronounce “arctic sea” in English

The Arctic sea ice is disappearing rapidly as I'll show you.

The Arctic sea ice has shriveled so much in thickness that the total volume of sea ice still remaining at the end of the melt season in September of 2011 was nearly 70 percent

It's just the Arctic sea ice floating around in the middle of the ocean up there.

Because the Arctic sea ice is disappearing very, very fast.

fundamentally by disappearing Arctic sea ice as the result of rising temperatures and that the situation is getting worse.

So each year the Arctic sea ice reaches its annual maximum extent in the late winter in approximately early March and then after the summer melt season each year the Arctic sea

cubic kilometers of Arctic sea ice has completely disappeared.

A number of Arctic sea ice experts have recently determined that the data relating to Arctic sea ice volume actually reveal an exponential decline rather than

is dangerous especially for the Arctic sea ice.

Misconception number three: as the Arctic sea ice melts and shrinks it becomes easier for polar bears to hunt seals because they catch their prey in the water.

So what is happening to the Arctic sea ice that polar bears and other Arctic animals depend on that they actually must have in order to survive?

Scientific data show without a doubt that Arctic sea ice is unquestionably shrinking in both extent and in thickness.

scientists who specialize in studying Arctic sea ice believe that there will be essentially no summer sea ice remaining within 20 years and it's possible that most of the ice will

In many parts of the Arctic the amount of time that polar bears can be out on the Arctic sea ice hunting seals is decreasing significantly already basically because the ice in the area

in order to protect the Arctic sea ice and protect the bear.

This misconception tends to lead people to believe that as the Arctic sea ice melts and disappears polar bears can simply shift from living out on the sea ice to living on land,

There's an annual cycle during which the Arctic sea ice naturally grows to some extent and then shrinks to some degree.

And the most important issue to keep in mind concerning Arctic sea ice and climate change is that bright ice cover on the Arctic Ocean reflects most of the sun's radiation, whereas

So what's the bottom line for the future of Arctic sea ice and for polar bears?

Well this incorrect notion tends to lead people to believe mistakenly that as the Arctic sea ice melts and disappears in one area polar bears can simply move to another area where

In addition, the thickness of Arctic sea ice is decreasing even more dramatically and of course the thinner the ice the most vulnerable to further melting it becomes.

but it just so happens that the things we need to do to save the Arctic sea ice are the things we need to do to save the rest of the world as well.

the albedo of the ocean by dumping Special K breakfast cereal into the Arctic Sea.

method, by controlling those particles is probably the only method of saving the arctic sea ice, because they're short lived.

there are several that are very prevalent and I think that they cause most people to believe incorrectly that rising Arctic temperatures and the disappearance of Arctic sea ice are

This shows from 1900 to 2010, or 2011, the Arctic sea ice

And before I explain that issue in a bit more detail, just as a preliminary matter, I wanna be sure that you understand a couple of basic things about Arctic sea ice.

Jenny Ross: And to just give you a few specific examples: sea level rise, as Kassie mentioned, now that's not from the Arctic sea ice melting 'cause that's ice that's floating on ocean;