Miss the point. The metrics presented by idealogs and media never include statistics from the 90% South. Ice coverage info was not available via satellite until 1978-9 The current Antarctic ice mass is above the annual mean recorded since 1978-9. http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/… You are correct that it has retreated from the very RECENT RECORD HIGH coverage. “If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.” I.B. Singer Mark Mazer Hertford, NC Where even if there was no such thing as global warming it would be hot and humid. -----Original Message----- >From: Robt R Pries <rpries@sbcglobal.net> >Sent: Nov 13, 2007 4:46 PM >To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >Subject: Re: [pbs] FROSTS > >If the South Pole has record cold why is the ice shelf >there retreating many miles back towards the pole. >Amazing > >--- Mark Mazer <markmazerandfm13@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> . Just imagine the tremendous >> >number of calories that are being absorbed >> presently >> >by the melting ice caps at the North Pole. Once >> that >> >ice is gone imagine how hot it could get without >> >something out there to absorb the excess. >> >> Like the present day South pole. Record warm North, >> record cold South. Hmm!!! >> Mark Mazer >> Hertford, NC >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >> > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/