Tom Yulsman in Discover Magazine:
It’s too soon to tell whether this is just a flash in the pan or the start of a really big melt year. There are examples in the past when “brief spikes of 30 and 40 percent occurred even though the year turned out to be fairly normal,” [NSIDC lead scientist] Scambos told me…
That said, “Persistence at this level would get my attention,” Scambos says.
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Goddard looks at the spike and sees it has dropped barely below 2 standard deviations; pronounces it "gone" and this article "hysterical". How insightful.
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