{"id":389955,"date":"2025-07-20T14:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=389955"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:06:07","slug":"west-arctic-nw-passage-see-3rd-highest-sea-ice-extent-in-over-2-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=389955","title":{"rendered":"West Arctic, NW Passage See 3rd Highest Sea Ice Extent In Over 2 Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"389959\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=389959\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OIG.dREC_.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OIG.dREC_.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OIG.dREC_.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OIG.dREC_.jpeg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OIG.dREC_.jpeg?resize=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OIG.dREC_.jpeg?resize=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OIG.dREC_.jpeg?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OIG.dREC_.jpeg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OIG.dREC_.jpeg?resize=450%2C450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OIG.dREC_.jpeg?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OIG.dREC_.jpeg?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/notrickszone.com\/2025\/07\/19\/west-arctic-nw-passage-see-3rd-highest-sea-ice-extent-in-over-2-decades\/\">NoTrickZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/notrickszone.com\/author\/admin\/\">P Gosselin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Higher Than 1981!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>An analysis of summer sea ice areas in the West Arctic including the NW Passage\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iceweb1.cis.ec.gc.ca\/Prod\/page2.xhtml?CanID=11081&amp;lang=en&amp;title=Western+Arctic\">the Canadian government<\/a>, shows that ice area levels remain above average.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hat-tip:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wobleibtdieglobaleerwaermung.wordpress.com\/2025\/07\/04\/siebenschlaefer-mit-schaukelsommer-in-mitteleuropa\/\">Snowfan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"555\" data-attachment-id=\"389957\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=389957\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-578.png?fit=801%2C615&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"801,615\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-578.png?fit=723%2C555&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-578.png?resize=723%2C555&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-389957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-578.png?w=801&amp;ssl=1 801w, 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Data source:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iceweb1.cis.ec.gc.ca\/Prod\/page2.xhtml?CanID=11081&amp;lang=en&amp;title=Western+Arctic\">Canada Ice Service<\/a>&nbsp;for sea ice areas in the Western Arctic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of summer sea ice areas in the West Arctic including the NW Passage\u00a0by\u00a0the Canadian government, shows that ice area levels remain above average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":389959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691836693,691818895,691836694],"class_list":["post-389955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nw-passage","tag-sea-ice","tag-west-arctic","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1DrB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":337077,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=337077","url_meta":{"origin":389955,"position":0},"title":"Arctic Sea Ice \u2018Choke Points\u2019 Reducing NW Passage Shipping Season Length By 5-14 Weeks Since 2007","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/20\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Global warming was supposed to open up Arctic region shipping routes, making the Northwest Passage easier and less risky to traverse. 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