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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (43493)	5/12/2013 1:49:40 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

"Charles - so - for some magic reason the ice packs are melting but the land ice fields are not? H'mmm - how can that be?" because the sea levels aren't rising that's why land ice is not melting only the ice next to land masses are. my brain hurts

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (43493)	5/12/2013 2:27:57 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

The ice on land is melting. Big time, and the sea levels are rising. thinkprogress.org "The findings were published online in Geophysical Research Letters (subs. req’d). In a U. of Washington news release, polar scientist and coauthor Axel Schweiger said: “Other people had argued that 75 to 80 percent ice volume loss was too aggressive. What this new paper shows is that our ice loss estimates may have been too conservative, and that the recent decline is possibly more rapid.”