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	<title>Icelights: Your Burning Questions About Ice &#38; Climate &#187; scientists</title>
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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>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>
		<comments>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/04/12/are-icebreakers-changing-the-climate/#comments</comments>
		<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>The Arctic sea ice maximum</title>
		<link>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/03/26/the-arctic-sea-ice-maximum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Leitzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NSIDC scientists announced today that the Arctic sea ice cover has likely reached its maximum extent, marking the beginning of the melt season. (For details, see Arctic Sea Ice News &#38; Analysis). What is the sea ice maximum and why... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/03/26/the-arctic-sea-ice-maximum/">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>The Arctic Oscillation, winter storms, and sea ice</title>
		<link>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/02/02/the-arctic-oscillation-winter-storms-and-sea-ice/</link>
		<comments>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/02/02/the-arctic-oscillation-winter-storms-and-sea-ice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Leitzell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nsidc.org/icelights/?p=629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, many scientists blamed the winter storms that blasted the Northeastern United States and Europe on the negative mode of a weather pattern called the Arctic Oscillation. This winter, the Arctic Oscillation started out in the opposite mode, which... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/02/02/the-arctic-oscillation-winter-storms-and-sea-ice/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sea ice down under: Antarctic ice and climate</title>
		<link>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/01/11/sea-ice-down-under-antarctic-ice-and-climate/</link>
		<comments>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/01/11/sea-ice-down-under-antarctic-ice-and-climate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Leitzell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nsidc.org/icelights/?p=601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Arctic Ocean is not the only place with sea ice. The ocean surrounding the continent of Antarctica also freezes over each winter. But we don’t hear much about sea ice on the bottom of the planet. What’s happening to... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/01/11/sea-ice-down-under-antarctic-ice-and-climate/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What’s in a number? Arctic sea ice and record lows</title>
		<link>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/11/02/what%e2%80%99s-in-a-number-arctic-sea-ice-and-record-lows/</link>
		<comments>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/11/02/what%e2%80%99s-in-a-number-arctic-sea-ice-and-record-lows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Leitzell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arctic sea ice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did Arctic sea ice reach an all-time record low this year—or not? Scientists at University of Bremen in Germany thought it was a new record, while data from NSIDC showed the sea ice at its second-lowest level. The two groups... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/11/02/what%e2%80%99s-in-a-number-arctic-sea-ice-and-record-lows/">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>Summer predictions for Arctic sea ice</title>
		<link>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/06/16/summer-predictions-for-arctic-sea-ice/</link>
		<comments>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/06/16/summer-predictions-for-arctic-sea-ice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Leitzell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nsidc.org/icelights/?p=442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Average Arctic sea ice extent this May was the third lowest in the satellite record. Does that mean that ice extent will reach a new record low this summer? Or will it recover somewhat over recent years? Last week sea... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/06/16/summer-predictions-for-arctic-sea-ice/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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