"Lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message
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Do you want there to be sea -ice or not!

I don't 'want' anything re Arctic sea-ice - I'm happy to let the facts speak
for themselves. What will be will be.

But it's obvious to anyone with two brain cells to run together (and who
hasn't closed their mind totally to the possibility for bizarre political
reasons) that the summer Arctic sea-ice extent is declining steadily, almost
certainly as a result of AGW, albeit with year-to-year variations in
decrement and distribution according to seasonal weather patterns, El
Nino/La Nina effects etc. A new record low is reached only every few years
with higher minima in between

This PolarOcean expedition is something I'd regard as a high-risk stunt with
perhaps only a 50/50 chance of success even at the outset and not
particularly something I'd support. I suspect that the organisers were
driven more by publicity-seeking than anything else - I'd guess that it's
going to be another 5-10 years before this type of voyage is more routinely
possible in late summer and they probably ought to have waited a few more
years. But it's perhaps inevitable that such adventurers are brave
individuals, foolhardy even, rather than objective scientific analysts. But
you were the one who chose to highlight it, otherwise it would probably have
gone unmentioned. But having started the thread it's important that the
facts are out there too rather than your attempts to twist and pervert the
picture.