Floating On Sea Ice

One more letter to the editor on the Global Warming scare.

I’m sorry I missed the letter writer’s name (my wife put the paper in the recycling), but he or she was concerned about the melting of the arctic sea ice, I guess rendering the world uninhabitable. You must have viewed the video of Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Un Sec. Gen., standing some 700 miles from the pole (as near as the stubbornly present ice would allow his ship to go), making a series of laughable statements, propaganda of the silliest kind. This undoubtedly frightened the writer into trumpeting the ridiculous gibberish

Sea ice melts every year, about 3.8 million sq miles, depending on the sun, not your tail pipe. Go to the Cryosphere Today web site (it has great pictures for those of you who aren’t into scientific data). There you will find that Sept. 2007, the sea ice was at its lowest point recently recorded. By the end of winter, 2008, it gained back an additional 500 sq km (about 190,000 sq miles) and the cold of the ‘09 winter saw another 500 sq km added on. By April 2010, it will be back up to 14 million sq miles. To get a sense of that, the great state of Texas is half a million sq miles.

Now, cold slows food production and if you need something real to be frightened about, there it is. Not me! I survive quite nice on red meat, and with all the new ice, it will soon be polar bear season.