I reread it and stand behind it.
Since you prefer to joust rather than learn I'll ignore you and spell it out for others:
1. Antarctica has some seven million cubic miles of ice, representing some 90 percent of the world's total.
Source:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/warnings/almanac.html 2. Speaking of Greenland, its ice sheet has seen dramatic melting in the last decade. Greenland contains about 9 percent of all ice on Earth?also enough water to raise sea level by 5 meters.
Source:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/TimeShelf Now lets see if everyone else other than Archer can figure this out.
Antarctica is a continent. The vast majority it its ice stored on top of land not floating in the ocean. Greenland is an island. The overwhelming majority of its ice stored on dry land not floating in the water. That is 99% of the world's ice.
Archer's talk about ice packs (see his comment posted posted April 02, 2006 05:38 PM is drivel and diversion. He is referencing 1-2% of the ice on earth. ice packs are irrelevant as are Archer's comments. Especially when viewed through the fact that the opening sentence of the post that started this thread reads: "Winter air temperatures over Antarctica have risen by more than 2C in the last 30 years." Which has absolutely nothing to do with ice packs.
