U. S, data demonstrates that Arctic sea ice is at a record low for this time of the year as 2010 tends to shape up to become one of the most warm years ever seen.

Scientists at the U. S. National Snow and Ice Data Center report that Arctic sea ice have informed that seeing frozen seawater floating on the ocean surface indicates that it is at its lowest physical level for the season and is on its way to smash the preceding record low that was set in the year 2007, reports the Guardian, a British media outlet.

Also, research from the University of Washington's polar science center is of the suggestion that the volume of sea ice in March 2010 was 38% below the 1979 level when records started coming into form, according to the story.

Other fresh U. S. data is of the indication that 2010 is on record to be the warmest ever recorded. The National Climatic Data Center and NASA both reported in the previous month that the first four months of this year were already setting records. They use information that goes back to 1880.

According to USA TODAY colleague, Doyle Rice, NCDC reported that Earth's combined land and ocean average surface temperature from January-April was 56 degrees, which is 1.24 degrees over the 20th-century average.