ABC news has been running a news story about the Arctic’s record ice melting this year. The story states that this past week that 69,000 square miles of ice has melted in the past week. This is roughly the size of Flordia.

So of course when I read the ABC news article I was somewhat skeptical. In fact I think the article shows a distinct liberal bias from the writer. Everything said in the article helps to further the environmentalist cause and gives absolutely no time to detractors of the global warming theory.

I also had a problem with some of the statistics. All of these facts are given without any kind of context. They don’t mention what the averages are so we have nothing to compare them with. How does 69,000 square miles compare with the average decline in a week? ABC named their source as the National Snow and Ice Data Center. So I said hey why not just e-mail the NSIDC and ask them? So that’s what I did.

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