Re: Arctic Ice Melt Has Reversed

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 (PeterBP)  wrote:

>00ZNB <00ZNB@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> F. William Engdahl, Global Research
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>> April 7, 2008
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>> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8583
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>> One of the most dramatic results of the record cold over much of the 
>> planet is the reversal of the much-re****ted melt of the icebergs in the
>> Arctic Ocean. Last autumn the world was alarmed to hear from certain 
>> climatologists that the ice in the Arctic had melted to its "lowest 
>> levels on record." What was carefully omitted from those scare stories
>> was the fact that those records only date back as far as 1972, and that
>> there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts
>> in the past.
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>> Now, as a result of the recent record cold weather, the ice is back. 
>> According to Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice
>> Service in Ottawa, the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not
>> only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than
>> at this time last year.
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>What is the total volume now, compared to earlier?

     How would you suggest calculating the total volume,
drill bore holes every kilometer and measure the thickness?