On 04/04/2009 08:02 AM, Rick Tarara wrote in part:
>> We need to keep the questions clear here. The polar melting
>> (and there has been some controversy on that lately as well)
No, there really isn't much controversy. NASA & NSIDC had a press
conference on Monday. The ice extent in the Arctic is continuing to
decrease -- not monotically, of course -- but equally bad, the ice is
thinning, and getting younger. See
I hear that in a month or two NSIDC will release a graph of Arctic sea
ice volume vs. time, which is really what you want to know. All
indications are that it will show a sharp decrease over the last couple
of decades.