{"id":6938,"date":"2012-08-10T02:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6938"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:18:47","slug":"watching-ice-melt-is-exciting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/08\/10\/watching-ice-melt-is-exciting\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching Ice Melt is Exciting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A massive summer storm settled over the Arctic and melted a lot of the ice just with the wind and the pressures caused by the storm. Not all the ice is gone, but it’s noticeable in the satellite images, just over the last week.<\/p>\n

The storm started out in Siberia where less snow cover on the land contributed to its ferocity. It moved over the ice pack in the Arctic Ocean and gained strength over the unusually warm waters. You can see the sea ice melting in the time-lapse images below. Also, look at the southeastern side of Greenland and you’ll notice a chunk of ice just vanish.<\/p>\n


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\nMassive Arctic storm batters sea ice<\/strong><\/a> (via Skeptical Science<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Posted on 11 August 2012 by Neven Whoever said watching the Arctic during the melting season is boring, needs to put his glasses on. After a record low reflectivity of the Greenland ice sheet (with accompanying floodings on the west coast of Greenland), the calving of another enormous iceberg from\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Aspen Trees in Siberia<\/a> photo via Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A massive summer storm settled over the Arctic and melted a lot of the ice just with the wind and the pressures caused by the storm. Not all the ice is gone, but it’s noticeable in the satellite images, just over the last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,2854,2648,498,1933,1981],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Aspen-Trees-in-Siberia.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6938"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}