ARCTIC ICE DISAPPEARING? DON’T YOU BELIEVE IT!!!

"The pattern this year illustrates the cycle. Here, courtesy of the University of Bremen are ice conditions for April 1, August 8, and November 29, 2007 respectively. Notice how much ice has already formed this winter, a more rapid growth than previously in the record. It was claimed the summer ice was the smallest on record but the valid record is short and coincides with arrival of satellite data in 1980. While the media raised alarms over Arctic ice melt, they did not report that Antarctic winter sea ice extent was the greatest on record. A similar pattern of annual freeze and melt occurs in the ocean around the continent but it changes from a summer minimum of about 2 million square kilometers to a winter maximum of about 15 million square kilometers, an annual change of some 13 million square kilometers. Of course, all this ice is in the water, so when it melts sea level doesn’t change. So the ice is not disappearing. Annual melt and refreeze is large, and current situations are well within normal numbers. The fuss over the ice works because people don’t know. But in case lack of knowledge doesn’t work an emotional and guilt trip will persuade the rest, or at least isolate them as uncaring. Yes, the polar bears are disappearing with the ice. But the ice isn’t disappearing. Right, and neither are the polar bears. Besides, they survived much warmer periods when the ice was reduced significantly. The longest since the last Ice Age was the Holocene Optimum from 9000 to 5000 years ago; the second was the Medieval Warm Period from 900 to 1200 AD, and most recently the warm period of the 1930s and 1940s, which we now know were warmer than the 1990s in North America despite what Al Gore says. As Marie Curie, a worthy winner of two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics said, “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” Full story in the: Canada Free Press Daily updates via this splendid Bremen University website Latest info on the real  state of Antarctic ice: Ice Cap Blogosphere (14 Jan. ’08). Makes a mockery of what you read in the national papers about Dr. Rignot’s "research". back to Letters Page   or   Home Page.

PS: ALLOW ME TO ALSO MAKE A PREDICTION (seeing that everyone else is): BY 2013 ARCTIC SUMMER ICE WILL HAVE INCREASED TO PRE-1980 LEVELS.