I really wosh you source was correct but it appears to have disappeared along with much of the ice shelf. --- Mark Mazer <markmazerandfm13@earthlink.net> wrote: > 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.â€� 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/