Sea ice off the coast of Antarctica and the Arctic hit record lows in November, and scientists are now reporting that, as of December 4, we’ve lost 3.76 million square kilometres of the stuff - more than the total area of India.
As startling as that is, at this point, we shouldn’t really be surprised - last month, temperatures in parts of the Arctic rose 20 degrees Celsius (36°F) above normal, and 2016 is on track to be the hottest year on record.
"There are some really crazy things going on," Mark Serreze, director of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) told Alister Doyle for Reuters.
"It's an extraordinary departure from the norm," added Anders Levermann from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.


that in November 2016, Arctic sea ice extent averaged 9.08 million square kilometres (3.51 million square miles) - the lowest November for Arctic sea ice on record.
That’s 800,000 square kilometres (309,000 square miles) below November 2006, which held the previous record for the lowest levels of sea ice in November.
It’s also 1.95 million square kilometres (753,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 long-term average for November.





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