re: #411 Charles

Photographic evidence of the loss of sea ice — kept classified by the Bush administration and recently released by the Obama administration:

[Link: trueslant.com…]

These pictures are really disturbing.

But we do have the overall ice pictures of the polar icecaps. Every year, the ice pulls away from the shoreline. In some years, it is earlier than in others. 2007 was an early year. 2008 was a later year. There are web cams in Pt Barrow that show the ice on a daily basis. I do not see this as an anti-scientific bias on the part of Bush. They were always reluctant to release spy photographs.