ApocaDocs: 'Permanent' Arctic sea ice has nearly vanished, expert fears

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Posted Sun Nov 29 2009: from Globe and Mail (Canada):


	'Permanent' Arctic sea ice has nearly vanished, expert fears http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1259503877 One of Canada's top northern researchers says the permanent Arctic sea ice that is home to the world's polar bears and usually survives the summer has all but disappeared. Experts around the world believed the ice was recovering because satellite images showed it expanding.... "It caught us all by surprise because we were expecting there to be multiyear sea ice -- the whole world thought it was multiyear sea ice," said Dr. Barber, who just returned from an expedition to the Beaufort Sea. "Unfortunately what we found was that the multiyear [ice] has all but disappeared. What's left is this remnant, rotten ice."

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'Doc Jim says:

So seeing is believing -- but can be wrong.