Category Archives: Climate
2012 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum
Last month, we showed how the Arctic sea ice reached a record low on August 26th. However, the minimum each year actually occurs in September and so we wanted to provide you with an update on the official 2012 minimum. Continue reading
August 2012 Fourth Warmest on Record
After the fourth warmest July on record, the combined global land and ocean temperature for August 2012 was 0.62°C (1.12°F) above the 20thcentury average of 15.6°C (60.1°F), making it the fourth warmest August on record (since 1880). Continue reading
Arctic Sea Ice at Record Low
On August 26, the Arctic ice extent dropped below the previous record low daily extent, observed on September 18, 2007, of 4.17 million square kilometers (1.61 million square miles). Since then, the sea ice ice has dropped to below 4 million square kilometers (1.54 million square miles). Continue reading
