What's happening to Arctic ice?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
BBC
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The area of ice covering the Arctic ocean has been in a state of long decline, as climate change takes effect. But recent fluctuations in the ice have been seized on by climate change sceptics, who say it tells a different story.
We speak to polar climate scientist Professor Julienne Stroeve to better understand how to read the ice data.
Presenter / producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Sound mix: Neil Churchill Editor: Richard Vadon
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| 1:01.0 | We're your weekly look at the numbers in the news and in life. I'm Tom Coles. |
| 1:07.0 | This week I'm going to look at the changes in Arctic sea ice caused by climate change. |
| 1:16.0 | After a listener suggests we look into a story from The Daily Skeptic. |
| 1:20.0 | The headline read, |
| 1:21.0 | Arctic Sea Ice Saws to highest level in 21 years, but isn't climate change pushing global temperatures up, which you would think might be bad for ice. |
| 1:34.9 | What is going on? |
| 1:36.4 | I spoke to Professor Julian Struva, a Polar Climate Scientist from University College London |
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