I'm sorry but you are wrong. It is the third greatest melt on record.
The Shrike Send a noteboard - 14/10/2009 05:38:02 PM
Are these the same scientists who had said earlier it was probably going to be ice-free this year?
2007 has the biggest melt followed by 2008 and 2009.
The US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado reported that the 2009 melt saw the Arctic ice cap shrink to 5.1 million square kilometres (1.97 million square miles) by mid-September, before beginning to expand again. This puts 2009 third behind 2008 and 2007’s record year for ice-cap melt. But minimum ice cover was still 20 per cent less this year than the 30-year average since satellite monitoring began in 1979.
Furthermore,
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has reported, meanwhile, that the June-August ocean surface temperature average reached 16.95 degrees Celsius (62.5 deg. Fahrenheit), the highest since records began in 1880. The combined land and ocean surface temperature for the same period was the third-warmest on record.
Not to mention that if you look at ice thickness, the amount of melt continues to increase. The volume of ice has decreased and continues to decrease.
Oh...by the way...we may have been wrong about that whole "Global Warming" thing
- 14/10/2009 03:23:53 PM
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This was posted on 10.10.09 by Trzkaska2000. 138 views. 15 replies.
- 14/10/2009 03:32:52 PM
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Your point being...? *NM*
- 14/10/2009 03:53:56 PM
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That your post is repetitive.
- 14/10/2009 05:33:05 PM
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No. I think my post is rather better. It has my priceless comments around the article.
- 14/10/2009 06:56:41 PM
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Your post is neither better nor worse. Same thing but reposted.
- 14/10/2009 08:23:55 PM
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They replied to someone else's post and viewpoint and insight.
- 14/10/2009 09:06:32 PM
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From your viewpoint. Not from mine. *NM*
- 14/10/2009 09:57:01 PM
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Perhaps. Either way, though, I'm egotistical enough not to care that it was posted elsewhere before *NM*
- 15/10/2009 03:45:14 AM
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In fairness, I only replied after you pointed towards that other thread in here. 
- 14/10/2009 10:08:53 PM
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- 14/10/2009 10:08:53 PM
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Within a decade, the North Pole will be ice-free during the summer
- 14/10/2009 03:35:31 PM
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That's strange, considering it melted less this summer than usual.
- 14/10/2009 03:55:28 PM
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I'm sorry but you are wrong. It is the third greatest melt on record.
- 14/10/2009 05:38:02 PM
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Who called it? *Double thumbs* This guy. This guy called it. *NM*
- 14/10/2009 04:13:43 PM
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Re: Oh...by the way...we may have been wrong about that whole "Global Warming" thing
- 14/10/2009 04:36:57 PM
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I registered it as a bug
- 14/10/2009 04:40:20 PM
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*NM*
Possible Consequences of taking global warming seriously...
- 14/10/2009 04:37:32 PM
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Increased cost for everyone
- 14/10/2009 04:42:07 PM
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Increased costs?
- 14/10/2009 05:11:11 PM
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You misunderstand my position.
- 14/10/2009 05:23:29 PM
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greed
- 14/10/2009 06:45:35 PM
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That's not how things work.
- 14/10/2009 06:50:27 PM
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Then lets change the way things work. Not as if capitalism is required by the US constition.
- 15/10/2009 07:04:51 PM
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You are really dense if you believe that
- 14/10/2009 06:59:43 PM
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capitalists are the dense ones if they believe that it is even a somewhat good system
- 15/10/2009 07:11:47 PM
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Tell that to the unwashed idiots who believe you and ruin the world with another revolution. *NM*
- 16/10/2009 05:59:01 PM
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Capitalism is one of the great inventions of the West - and so is socialism.
- 16/10/2009 06:13:12 PM
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Welcome to Communism!
- 14/10/2009 09:45:02 PM
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communism is a system of government. SOCIALISM is an economic system
- 15/10/2009 07:01:16 PM
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The word communism can mean either political system or economic system or both.
- 15/10/2009 07:25:59 PM
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Cap and trade is an attempt to use the power of the free market - you'd think you'd appreciate that.
- 14/10/2009 10:24:46 PM
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Cap and trade is something only big companies can really afford
- 15/10/2009 03:52:52 AM
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"Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy."
- 15/10/2009 04:20:21 AM
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Other Possible Consequences of taking global warming seriously...
- 14/10/2009 06:33:38 PM
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+1
- 14/10/2009 06:46:11 PM
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So you decided to ignore my response?
- 14/10/2009 07:02:01 PM
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No, I just think it's gonna pay off in the long run
- 14/10/2009 07:21:04 PM
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+ 1 I agree with you completely in here.
- 14/10/2009 08:19:45 PM
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So, I guess you are now a Catholic?
- 14/10/2009 09:49:21 PM
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I hope you're not suggesting the Global Warming is only a rallying cry for the Right?
- 14/10/2009 09:48:22 PM
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- 14/10/2009 08:07:54 PM
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No worries, it's worth a second post!!! AGW is total BS.....
- 14/10/2009 09:39:20 PM
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I probably would have just responded if I had seen that you had posted
- 15/10/2009 03:54:29 AM
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I love how even when people factor in cosmic rays the naysayers reject findings they dislike.
- 15/10/2009 05:07:31 AM
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Well, it's good to see that some folks still actually follow science rather than politics
- 16/10/2009 05:04:17 PM
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