"It seems that ice at both poles hasn't been paying attention to thecomputer models. The National Snow and Ice Data Center released itssummary of summer sea-ice conditions in the Arctic last week andreported a substantial expansion of "second-year ice" — ice thickenough to have persisted through two summers of seasonal melting.

According to the NSIDC, second-year ice this summer made up 32% ofthe total ice cover on the Arctic Ocean, compared with 21% in 2007 and9% in 2008. Clearly, Arctic sea ice is not following the consensustouted by Gore and the warm-mongers.

This news coincides with a finding published in the journalGeophysical Research Letters last month by Marco Tedesco, a researchscientist at the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology. He reportedthat ice melt on Antarctica was the lowest in three decades during theice-melt season."