{"id":417814,"date":"2025-12-19T14:47:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=417814"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:47:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:47:53","slug":"sea-ice-conditions-continued-to-favour-arctic-marine-life-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=417814","title":{"rendered":"Sea ice conditions continued to favour Arctic marine life in\u00a02025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The polarbearscience<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Increased primary productivity<\/a>\u00a0in the Arctic generated by reduced summer sea ice has continued into 2025, according to NOAA\u2019s annual\u00a0Arctic Report Card<\/a>\u00a0published yesterday, which means Arctic seals and whales, walrus, and polar bears will continue to flourish.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Don\u2019t look for that take-home in the\u00a0legacy media<\/a>, since they will all focus on the bits of the report that feed a\u00a0doom-mongering narrative.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

September sea ice extent<\/a> has continued to stall,<\/a> rather than plummet as predicted (Table 1: eleventh lowest average September extent since 1979; 4.75 mkm2), although they don\u2019t come out and say so. NSIDC has stopped producing monthly sea ice reports<\/a> due to budget cuts in late September 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Report Card highlights [my bold]:<\/p>\n\n\n\n