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Originally Posted by Mutt
The speech by former US Vice-President Al Gore was apocalyptic. ?The North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff,? he said. ?It could be completely gone in summer in as little as seven years. Seven years from now.?
Those comments came in 2007 as Mr Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaigning on climate change.
But seven years after his warning, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that, far from vanishing, the Arctic ice cap has expanded for the second year in succession ? with a surge, depending on how you measure it, of between 43 and 63 per cent since 2012.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-FREE-now.html |
The KEY word is he said "COULD" Not that it WILL... "COULD"...
And according to these guys
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ The ones that actually measure the ice and keep track of it the ice level. Although better than it was in the last few years it is still well below average. BUT the Antarctic Ice seems to be doing much better this year though... its all back and fourth-push and pull-this and that... because its the weather... the only way the truth will ever be known is to just wait and see how it all unfolds in the future...
