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		<title>NSIDC at AGU</title>
		<link>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/12/18/nsidc-at-agu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Naranjo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If NSIDC scientists are busy all year long conducting their own research, how do they keep up with what their colleagues elsewhere are doing? They exchange flurries of emails and phone calls, of course, and collaborate on journal articles and... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/12/18/nsidc-at-agu/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Arctic sea ice back to normal?</title>
		<link>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/05/29/is-arctic-sea-ice-back-to-normal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 21:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Leitzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April, average ice extent in the Arctic Ocean was right near the long-term average for the month. Ice extent even reached a near-record high in the Bering Sea, and still remains above average for that region. Does this mean... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/05/29/is-arctic-sea-ice-back-to-normal/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What is causing Arctic sea ice decline?</title>
		<link>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/05/16/what-is-causing-arctic-sea-ice-decline/</link>
		<comments>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/05/16/what-is-causing-arctic-sea-ice-decline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Leitzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers sometimes ask us, “What are the reasons behind Arctic sea ice decline?” In summer months, ice extent has declined by more than 30 percent since the start of satellite observations in 1979. But is climate change really the culprit,... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/05/16/what-is-causing-arctic-sea-ice-decline/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Are icebreakers changing the climate?</title>
		<link>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/04/12/are-icebreakers-changing-the-climate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Leitzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In summer months, icebreaking ships head north into the Arctic Ocean, tearing through the sea ice and leaving trails of open water in their wakes. Readers occasionally write in to ask us whether the trails left by these ships contribute... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/04/12/are-icebreakers-changing-the-climate/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Modeling the Arctic climate</title>
		<link>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/03/08/modeling-the-arctic-climate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Leitzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In February, polar climate researchers gathered at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado to discuss the newest updates to models of the Earth’s climate system. The researchers are working together to create better models of the Arctic... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/03/08/modeling-the-arctic-climate/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Climate change or variability: What rules Arctic sea ice?</title>
		<link>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/08/24/climate-change-or-variability-what-rules-arctic-sea-ice/</link>
		<comments>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/08/24/climate-change-or-variability-what-rules-arctic-sea-ice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Leitzell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nsidc.org/icelights/?p=523</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Arctic sea ice is near its annual low extent for the year. Will it reach a new record low? While many people are watching this year’s ice extent closely, the effect of climate change on ice extent in a single... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/08/24/climate-change-or-variability-what-rules-arctic-sea-ice/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Getting beneath the ice</title>
		<link>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/08/03/getting-beneath-the-ice/</link>
		<comments>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/08/03/getting-beneath-the-ice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Leitzell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arctic sea ice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nsidc.org/icelights/?p=491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NSIDC reports ice extent, a two-dimensional measure of the Arctic Ocean’s ice cover. But sea ice extent tells only part of the story: sea ice is not all flat like a sheet of paper. While freshly formed ice might not... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/08/03/getting-beneath-the-ice/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Arctic sea ice and U.S. weather</title>
		<link>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/04/05/what-is-the-connection-between-arctic-sea-ice-and-u-s-weather/</link>
		<comments>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/04/05/what-is-the-connection-between-arctic-sea-ice-and-u-s-weather/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 03:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Leitzell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arctic sea ice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nsidc.org/icelights/?p=348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the 2010 to 2011 winter, news stories suggested a potential connection between a warming climate, low Arctic sea ice extent, and unusually cold weather this winter in the U.S. and Europe. What do scientists know about how sea ice... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/04/05/what-is-the-connection-between-arctic-sea-ice-and-u-s-weather/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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