To: Sully- who wrote (71069 ) 4/12/2009 12:00:37 AM From: Sully- Read Replies (1) | Respond to AP at it again on Warming Now, as a April 7, Associated Press story by Seth Borenstein affirms, the massive 2008 gain of Arctic ice mass is being presented not as recovery, but used to perpetuate the meme of a melting Arctic. It seems unlikely that any but the keenest uninitiated reader would glean from this that the story is really reporting massive ice mass gain. Although it is rarely laid out as merely being three decades — that truth is available, if not emphasized in the AP story — the even more salient point rarely makes its way into the piece, that these measurements began at the end of the coldest decade of the century. AP does not disclose this , even though that perspective is essential.what’s being obscured is that we have never had so much new ice given the massive 2008 recovery, with now hundreds of thousands of square kilometers more Arctic ice mass more than the year before – and globally, what we would call “average” levels since measurements began. nrinstitute.org
