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Cool animation of warm polar ice cap

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Richard Cable | 12:13 UK time, Friday, 6 March 2009

sea_ice_uni_of_illinois.jpg'Cryosphere Today' sounds like something that Have I Got News For You would feature in their missing words round. In fact it's a site dedicated to visualisations of polar sea ice data from the University of Illinois' Department of Atmospheric Sciences.

Not hopping up and down with excitement yet? OK, so go to the site and have a look at the .

We haven't linked you directly to it (the link is just to the right of the fabulously gothic header) because it's a 46Mb Quicktime movie, but it's definitely worth a look. Thrill to the flow of the sea ice as it expands and contracts in a frenzied fashion since 1979. They even have a pack ice app for your iPhone.

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