Antarctica

The Antarctic Peninsula has been the subject in Al Gore's Travesty of a movie, though the conclusions made by the film are wrong.

First: In the movie, Al Gore talks about how the breakup happened in March. All the while, he was fooling the people by "failing" to mention the fact that March is the end of the Southern Hemisphere Summer, and that the Peninsula breaks up every year.

Second: The Peninsula is only 2 percent of the entire continent.

Third: The continent is getting colder, starting in 86, at .7 degrees Celsius per decade. This leads to a total of 1.4 degrees Celsius. That is twice the warming of the earth that the Goraclists are claiming. (Documented in "Antarctic climate cooling and terrestrial ecosystem response" in Nature Magazine by Doran, P. T., Priscu, J. C., Lyons, W. B., et al. in 2002.)

Fourth: Side-Looking radar has shown that after 6,000 years of melting, the Ice is increasing at 26.8 gigatons/yr. in the West Antarctic. (Documented in "Positive mass balance of the Ross Ice Streams, West Antarctica" in Science Magazine, Joughin, I., and Tulaczyk, S., in 2002)

Fifth: Ninety Percent of the water in the world is locked in Antarctica. Therefore, when a person talks about how the Arctic is melting, point out that with four percent of the Ice locked up in Grennland, only six percent of the ice is divided around the glaciers and the North Pole. That is not a lot of Ice.

So, based on this, there is no threat from the Arctic Circle melting. After all, the Antarctic is growing at four times the rate that the Arctic is melting. Something to remember.