re: #85 Sharmuta

That is what is not true.

Just for the record:

My first post in this thread, #40, was not written by me. It was quoted directly from the caption of the poster of Barrow. It was downdinged numerous times.

In #55, I posted “The ice shown in that 2006 picture melts every year. Its thickness is irrelevant.” Again downdinged numerous times. The thickness of ice that melts each year, regardless of all other factors, is not relevant to any discussion of the melting of the caps. The top left corner of the picture posted is about two miles from the coast of Barrow according to the scale of the map. It melts every summer.

I backed up this fact with a Wikipedia quote and later it was backed up with an article from alaska.edu in #172. All downdinged.

Finally, I am accused of distortion for stating what should be nice simple facts. Recognition that the Barrow poster tells us nothing except about what things were looking like in 2005 and 2006.

There are plenty of images that say something about the melting of the caps and the thickness of the ice that remains throughout the year. Pictures of the sea within 2 miles of the shores of Barrow are not them.