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To: Scumbria who wrote (122549)	8/21/2000 11:04:28 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1571714

You're not the only one that's noticed, Scumbria. Ages-Old Polar Icecap Is Melting, Scientists Find nytimes.com The North Pole is melting. The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday. At least for the time being, an ice-free patch of ocean about a mile wide has opened at the very top of the world, something that has presumably never before been seen by humans and is more evidence that global warming may be real and already affecting climate. The last time scientists can be certain the pole was awash in water was more than 50 million years ago. Not due to global warming, of course, and if it is, well, it's all natural or something, and you can't prove otherwise. This story has developed really quickly, over the past year there have been stories about the pack going down from 30 feet thick to 10 feet, then all of a sudden, it's gone. Living in the upper Midwest, where the dreaded Arctic air masses frequently descend in the winter months, I sort of like the idea of all the latent heat being released as the ice reforms this winter. It does seem a little troubling from a broader perspective, though. Cheers, Dan.