Polar ice may vanish in 5-7 years

Gore: Polar ice may vanish in 5-7 years - Yahoo! News

It amazes me that this liar is still spouting his total fabrications unchecked. Polar ice is thicker than it has ever been...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091214/ap_on_sc/climate_gore

"It is hard to capture the astonishment that the experts in the science of ice felt when they saw this," said former U.S. Vice President Gore, who joined Scandinavian officials and scientists to brief journalists and delegates. It was Gore's first appearance at the two-week conference.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/09/wuwt-ice-survey-shows-thickening-arctic-ice/

The data is collected from the US military web site http://imb.crrel.usace.army.mil. All of the active military buoys show significant thickening ice over the past six months to a year, as seen below.


http://www.greenhousetruth.com/blog/2007_11_6_ice.shtml

In contrast to the Arctic, the extent of sea ice in the Antarctic has come close this year to breaking its satellite-monitored record for maximum area of 16.03 million sq km.
It's funny how these things get lost in the fine-print. The media, although in virtual obscurity, did concede that Antarctic ice is thickening. But what's also disturbing is how many in the counter-climate-change-crowd have been guilty of not looking at the whole story either.