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Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2009 Minimum, Pressure Builds On Senate
To Pass Climate Bill This Year 2009 Ice Melt Continues Rapid
Decline Observed over Last Three Decades WASHINGTON - September
17 - Ice coverage over the Arctic sea has likely reached its
lowest level for 2009 - the third lowest amount of coverage on
record - based on data collected by the National Snow and Ice
Data Center. This year's summer melt continues a trend of rapid
sea ice decline over the past 30 years. The average sea ice
extent for August 2009 was 2.42 million square miles - about
540,000 square miles below the 1979 to 2000 average. That
decline is larger than the states of Texas, California, Florida
and Indiana combined. World Wildlife Fund issued the following
statement from Keya Chatterjee, a