Sea Ice is so far off shore that the polar bears are stranded on the land mass and can't swim out to the ice and catch seals this summer. Scientists who were surveying the coast line's shore birds were forced to retreat when a polar bear showed up. Normally this time of the year the polar bears are all out on the sea ice but not this summer.
And yes it was just yesterday that scientists discovered that this shelf of ice had vanished. It fell of into the sea and floated away.
Ice does not melt and ice shelfs don't fall into the ocean when the earth cools down. That only happens as the Earth Warms up.
Remember all it takes is a few degrees of warming to melt ice. Ice melts when it gets above 32 deg F. So ice can go from 31 deg F to 33 deg F and melt. That's only a difference of two deg F. And the mean average temperature of the earth has risen more than 2 deg F.
I don't care where those pictures that Subman posted were manufactured, the Arctic Seas have much less ice now than before.
Why else would Russia start sending Bears out to Patrol the Arctic? They know as we know that the ice is melting up there and exposing rick oil resources for the taking. And they are going to try to claim the outer continental shelf's oil etc. They would not be doing that if there was too much ice covering the Arctic Ocean. But the ice is melting and exposing the water and that's why Russia is going after the oil in this region.
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Originally Posted by gee true
I saw this first, but then I thought good ole subman will see it next ...
So I let it go 
Wait a minute your not talking about the 1,400 mile galcier that just fell into the ocean are you. I'll go get the article.
This thing is so big ... the glacier itself very very old.
Didn't the whole thing go crashing off at the same time and thats why it's so big? |