One of the recommended videos I included in my Arctic Sea Ice Ecosystem Teaching Guide is a film called “Edge of Ice”. Produced in 1986 (before climate change hype pervaded everything), this 55 minute documentary from the National Film Board of Canada (filmed in Lancaster Sound, Canada) is an excellent summary of Arctic sea ice and its ecology. Available for free streaming here.
Narrated in parts by an Inuk hunter, it not only shows virtually all of the species associated with ice edges in the central Canadian Arctic, including polar bears, but also explains the process of freezing and thawing; life under the ice and the importance of polynyas.
Worth bookmarking for future viewing if you can’t get to it right away. Beats watching the news these days. It’s also a reminder to tell your homeschooling friends and relatives over the holidays about my free Teaching Guide resource: it’s something many parents will find useful.
Arctic sea ice extent is at the average for 2001-10, and well above for 2011-20 and the century.
Yes – but that is very much the exception over the last 2 decades, isn’t it?
No. Arctic sea ice has been growing since 2012 and flat since 2007.
If it’s average for 2001-10, how can it be an exception for the past two decades? It’s above average for 2001-2020, so I guess in that case it’s less usual than the norm. But it’s in line with the nine-year uptrend.
Arctic sea ice is cyclic, roughly 30 years of wax and 30 of wane.
Arctic ice: wax and wane
griff: no facts and all whine.
It was much lower in 1974.
The exception could have been the time with lower ice with an actuel return to normal.
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It was much lower during the early to mid 20th century and during the MWP, so what exactly is your point?
Thank you, Susan, for this reference!
The problem is the edge of the ice is ever further away in the thaw season – and it recedes earlier.
Whose problem, yours ?
Not for polar bears, be sure 😀
Not according to researching unless you know better
Mindless babble from the mindless trollop.
Griff, polar bears and seals seem to disagree with you as they refuse to go into crisis?
Why don’t you think like a polar bear as this is the best time ever for them.
Same as it is for us BTW
Griff reminds me of a 6 year old I used to coach at T-ball. Every time he came up to bat he got his butt kicked and rarely got to first base. But his confidence never wavered and every time he came in he had a bit of a strut as if he expected to hit a homer. It didn’t happen.
Any chance of sending a freebee to WWF as they’re still ranting on tv ads here in the UK about the vanishing sea-ice because of non-globul warming destroying their “home”!!!
Merry Christmas to WUWT et al & a happy new year!!! AtB
Great idea, Alan. 😀
Afraid WWF won’t agree: “All is well with the sea ice. No crisis. No need to send us money to save the polar bears” doesn’t accomplish their mission (SEND US MORE MONEY (that’s how we pay our holy little selves)). 🤨
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Merry Christmas! 🎄
And Merry Christmas to Susan Crockford, thank you for your efforts and contribution in fighting the Scientology narrative.
Video was well worth watching. Thanks
The WWF has been running their “look at the poor Polar Bears” commercials