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here in the frigid waters of the Arctic

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a team aboard the US Coast Guard Cutter

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healing studies the sea ice for signs of

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climate change scientists also monitor

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the Arctic ice cap from space and

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they're worried by what they see the

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change over the Arctic sea is stunning

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we never ever seen such a large change

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before just between the 2005 and this

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winter the change in the perennial eyes

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which is the thick large Arctic sea is

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reduced by a million square kilometer

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that suppose the area of California and

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Texas combined a chunk of thick ice the

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size of two states has disappeared in

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two years is global warming the calls

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Sonya and Greg Newman of NASA's Jet

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Propulsion Laboratory say they don't

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have enough data yet to tell but they do

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know at least part of the answer is

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blowin in the wind we believe it's due

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to unusual wind pattern which cause the

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ice to be pushed out of the Arctic past

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Greenland and then it melted in the

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Arctic Ocean normally there is a current

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called the transport riff that go from

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the Russian side toward the Canadian

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side and how to the Queen land see this

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wind pattern pushed the eyes on both

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sides of this current loaded into this

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current it pushed them or accelerated

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out like a runaway train

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when thick perennial ice is lost it's

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hard to reverse the trend there are two

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kinds of Arctic ice there's the kind of

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ice that sticks around for many years

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more than one and that can grow to be

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very thick and then there's a kind of

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ice that grows and melts every year it

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seems that in recent years as ice has

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been lost it gets easier to lose more

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ice it's more sensitive to the weather

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patterns the wind and other factors it

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means that various kinds of creatures

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that live in the Arctic the polar bears

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the reduction of Arctic CI has been

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occurring over the past eight year it is

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likely that it may continue but there's

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no guarantee for that satellites like

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NASA's quick scat can identify different

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types of sea ice where it's moving and

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determine if it's growing or shrinking

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so while scientists may not have a

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complete answer to why the ice is