This is the next in an occasional series of diaries on the state of Northern Hemisphere Arctic sea ice (and other topics as warranted), written in memory of Johnny Rook, who passed away in early 2009. He was the author of the Climaticide Chronicles.
In my diary last week, I neglected to put the header acknowledging Johnny Rook's contributions to the environmental diaries here at Daily Kos. I apologize for the oversight.
Okay, now on to this week's news. The international study of the Arctic still goes on, despite our economic troubles. At the North Pole in April 2010, two buoys with weather instruments were launched. They're currently drifting south toward an area between Greenland and Svalbard called the Fram Strait; the green and red lines in the map below show their path through 11 June. At 26 June their locations were about a third of a degree or so further south than shown in the map.
More below.
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