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OUR CHANGING PLANET
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program
for Fiscal Year 2009

A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and
The Subcommittee on Global Change Research
A Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 2009 Budget

Figure 7: September Arctic Ice Extent (1979-2007).

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September sea ice extent across the Arctic from 1979 to 2007. The September rate of sea ice decline since 1979 is now approximately 10% per decade, or 72,000 km2 yr-1. Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center.

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