Rapid loss of multi-year sea ice in the arctic

(Kirk Smith) Satellite images of sea-ice movement in the Arctic basin suggest that huge quantities of multi-year sea ice have been flushed out of the basin in the last six months. The video clip available at this link is a low-resolution reproduction of a sequence of satellite images of Arctic ice. The sequence runs in a continuous loop from October 01, 2007, to March 15, 2008.