"Global warming' shrinks Arctic sea ice" online article

[Crazy Dave]

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Arctic sea ice is shrinking faster than ever before - declining by 14 per cent between 2004 and 2005 - in what some climate scientists are saying is a clear sign of global warming.

Unusually warm temperatures in the region are shortening the winter ice season and have caused the perennial sea ice, which should stay frozen all year, to reduce dramatically.

On Wednesday, Josefino Comiso of Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre outside Washington DC said: "The greenhouse phenomenon is actually becoming apparent in the Arctic.
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Anybody want to guess where this article clip came from?
Al Jazeera News
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/838444F6-37EB-49CF-A559-F3D2CF8F908A.htm

The same news group Bush and Rumsfeld call terrorist TV. I didn't see anything in the article about suicide bombing, Jihad or where the next Al Qaeda pep rally will be myself. They are a legitimate news agency whether this administration likes it or not.

[OneBlueSky]

1. "declining by 14 per cent between 2004 and 2005" . . .

if this is true -- and indicative of a trend -- we are s-o-o-o-o-o fucked . . .

[longship]

2. All that fresh water.

It's got to have an effect on the global ocean conveyor.

Poor Northern Europe if the conveyor is stopped.