It continues to astonish me that environmental reporters cannot pick up the Arctic meltdown ball and run with it.
The trend in meltdown in the northernmost latitudes is a very big deal – and it’s ongoing, it hasn’t stopped, gone into remission or gone away.
The nature of the ice is changing – so much so that scientific monitoring equipment was confused.
It is now clear that Arctic summer sea ice is in a “death spiral”, a phrase first used very recently, in an attempt to properly describe what is happening :-
