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Chicken Little - wrong again. Melting Polar Ice department

From The Register:

Are the ice caps melting?
The headlines last week brought us terrifying news: The North Pole will be ice-free this summer "for the first time in human history," wrote Steve Connor in The Independent. Or so the experts at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado predict. This sounds very frightening, so let's look at the facts about polar sea ice.

As usual, there are a couple of huge problems with the reports.

The author (Steven Goddard) then quotes from this article in the New York Times where the same NSIDC expert, Mark Serreze, said:

"There's nothing to be necessarily alarmed about. There's been open water at the pole before. We have no clear evidence at this point that this is related to global climate change."

A bit of a long read (three pages) but very well researched and worth checking out if only to quiet some of the hysteria being drummed up by non-scientists. Posted by DaveH at July 3, 2008 7:19 PM