[Science] Arctic ice thinned dramatically since 2004


	[Science] Arctic ice thinned dramatically since 2004

Laxon

7-7-2009 11:51 PM

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arctic ice, nasa, thinned

Laxon says:

And more and more official data piles in, while less and less people want to care about it.

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