So just how much Sea Ice has been lost...if any? And over what period of time?
The Cryosphere Website, nor any visual Satellites, cant tell anyone just how much Artic Sea ice has been lost in the Artic ocean, or from the Artic lands and Islands over the last few years.
Satellites cannot read the thickness of the the Artic ice.
Satellite sub-millimeter Radar can only check the Sea height
snow and ice heights. Average heights that are constantly changing, with the seasons

It has been estimated that Two Trillion Tons of ice has melted in the Artic area.
Just how do they reach that figure I wonder?

I suppose one has to believe that a hundred years ago man tried reaching the N Pole by Dog, Ski, Sleigh, and Balloon.
Not that man suceeded, (apart from Peary) if you read what Wiki has to say about it here.
I had to smile about the only man in the World, who stood at the N Pole, Slowly shifting his feet clockwise for 24 hours ...So that he actually never moved!(In Wiki)
According to Wiki...Boats can now sail to the N pole, as well as Submarines. Also the N Pole has been open sea for short times.

So if you believe that the Artic ice has thinned by virtue that Man cannot now reach the N Pole on foot anymore. Then you might well believe that the Ice has thinned?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole

It seems to me that in spite of the 'Farsighted three forcasts.
Professor James Hansen, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, James Lovelock, and Al Gore.?
For hav'nt they all predicted Artic and Antartic melts with consequential sea rises. But even they will have to await for the result of the following:-
An actual brave experiment being carried out by a British team pulling an Electronic Radar sled all the way to the North Pole. This sled monitors the actual ice thickness automaticaly every step of the way.
The ice is so poor, that provision has been made for the sled to float should they run out of ice on the way there.
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE51B5F920090212

http://www.fairhome.co.uk/2009/03/02/british-explorers-measure-arctic-ice-melt/




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