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Baltic Sea has twice as much ice than last year

by Pasi | February 23, 2009 at 09:21 am

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The January has been warmer than average, but the frost has continued for several weeks. In the middle of the February all the Finland's shores were frozen. The Baltic Sea has twice as much ice than last year, which was warmer than average winter. In this winter, there has not been very cold temperatures, but the frost has lasted longer than usual.

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Roy C

at 10:37 on February 23rd, 2009

An unpopular position with believers in Global Warming. I am agnostic on that issue. Go for the renewables for other environmental reasons such as ordinary pollution and help us get of oil and foreign oil.

Thanks for the info.

mika293

at 12:18 on February 23rd, 2009

This is photo is of the sea surrounding the Finnish island fortress of Suomenlinna. Though the sea was not frozen over completely in this photos, in smaller areas of the sea shielded off from the main coast there was enough ice to walk, skate and ski on.

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Pasi

at 22:13 on February 23rd, 2009

Thanks Mika, great photos.

Alexanche

at 06:22 on February 24th, 2009

These are pictures of Baltic sea taken near Pärnu, Estonia, on January,2. It was a sunny and frosty day and sea was covered with strong ice so we could run to the horizon..
But now, by the end of Feburary, it has mostly broken and gone..

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keibr

at 07:08 on February 24th, 2009

Compared with recent years it has been a very cold January and February in Sweden, at least on the coast where I live. So I'm not at all surprised there is more ice than last year. In general this winter has been more like the ones we had 15 to 20 years ago - which is fine by me!

The temperatures in any one year have no relevance to the global warming question of course, especially the local temperatures!

mis ivetta

at 04:27 on February 25th, 2009

These pictures of Baltic sea are taken near Riga, Latvia and show us a great art of nature!

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Pasi

at 04:37 on February 25th, 2009

34 pictures - thank you all

Hellstroem

at 05:11 on February 26th, 2009

Northen Sweden, at the east coast. It was minus 15 degrees celsius otside and the sun was already setting at 2 pm this early January day. The sound of ice blocks moving was amazing and broke the serenity, but in a nice way!

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Babel-Fish

at 17:54 on February 26th, 2009

I am open minded about global warming but see the sense of cleaning up our continuing pollution, so I will go with the flow of backing the global warming hype machine. Eco friendly and non reliance on oil, coal, uranium would be only good news to mankind and the thousands of species on this planet.

The logic is what if the reports of global warming are right? Its all ways best to lean on the side of causion than on the side of the status quo and no solid action.

Zara Miravent

at 14:27 on February 28th, 2009

This was taken in Espoo, South Finland and depicts the frozen Baltic sea. As I love cross country skiing on the sea I very well remember that last year it was not possible at all as the sea did not freeze. But this year has been great!

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