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COMMENTS: Spring is Here…
…so now it is time to check how cold winter was. NBC's Anne Thompson brought us NASA's pictures of the Arctic Ocean and the news was not encouraging. The ice cover "was the fifth smallest on record," she told us, "and the ice that is there was the thinnest ever…the most susceptible to summer melting." Less ice means less reflection of solar rays, which means more absorption of heat by ocean waters, which means less ice.
By the way, the Antarctic ice bridge that attaches the Wilkins Ice Shelf to the continent has just collapsed. The shelf could now break free.
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