<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Real Science]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[stevengoddard]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/author/stevengoddard/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Oldest/Thickest Arctic Sea Ice Has More Than Doubled Since&nbsp;2012]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Mark &#8220;Death Spiral&#8221; Serreze at NSIDC always puts a graph of multi-year ice in his April sea ice news. The point of this graph is to show how old/thick ice is disappearing from the Arctic. This year he forgot, so I decided to chip in and lend a hand.</p>
<p>The percentage of sea ice five or more years old has more than doubled since 2012.</p>
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<p>The animation below shows the huge increase in multi-year ice in the western Arctic over the last two years</p>
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