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12-03-2009, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by MMM View Post
The polar bears will sure be relieved.
Yes, they should, in the last century their population increased 10 fold, and is still increasing. And, somehow, they survived the last interglacial period when there was no sea ice at all. Another "Inconvenient Truth"?

I guess no one here knows that the Northwest passage used to be navigable by ship in the 19th and early 20th centuries, which means that there was less sea ice then than there is now. If the world has been getting warmer, why is there more sea ice now than there was a century ago?

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