I emailed the scientist quoted in the "Sea Ice Gone By 2010" article and he responded:

[XemaSab]

Good evening,

No, this is a mistake by the reporter. The actual number of course is ca.
1.1 million square kilometres.

Best regards,

Louis Fortier

[aquart]

1. Ouch.

[MADem]

2. Do you have a link to the article, and I take it the error made the impact smaller? nt

[XemaSab]

5. The error took the amount of ice lost down to 90,000 square meters

:eyes:

[RC]

3. I just love coming across a new thread that is really a middle of a discussion.

Especially when there is not enough information to to determine the subject, let alone to check anything out.

Democratic Underground is a big place with a lot of people posting and even more just browsing. DU is not a private IM.

[Nihil]

4. A time-ordered discussion forum is like that.

Even though you have a star (and so could search) there was no need
to work even that hard ... the article was still on the first page
of the E/E forum but - for the benefit of other lazy readers - here
is the link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x122228

> Democratic Underground is a big place with a lot of people posting
> and even more just browsing. DU is not a private IM.

Nor is it a sounding board for the technically inept. :P

[RC]

6. From your post I would know that ... How?

Always post a link, source, something

[XemaSab]

7. Fine, here's a link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2owhCDsZ_4&feature=user

[Nihil]

8. From *my* post you would see the explanation AND the link ...

... because I stepped in to try to help you with your apparent confusion
with the OP and because I looked at the first page of topic titles ...

> Always post a link, source, something

Good, sound advice ... almost as good as "Check to whom you are responding" :P