Look at how much permanent Arctic sea ice has dissappeared!

[n2doc]

The change in the white (white='permanent') area near Russia is astounding for such a short time.

This image provided by NASA Wednesday Sept. 13, 2006 shows QuikScat interannual observations of sea ice over the Arctic enabling the detection of recent drastic reductions in the extent of perennial ice and its depletion from the eastern Arctic Ocean between 2004, left and 2005. Arctic sea ice in winter is melting far faster than before, two new NASA studies reported Wednesday, a new and alarming trend that researchers say threatens the ocean's delicate ecosystem. For more than 25 years Arctic sea ice has slowly diminished in winter by about 1.5 percent per decade. But in the past two years the melting has occurred at rates 10 to 15 times faster. (AP Photo/NASA)

[soothsayer]

1. Don't worry, the next ice age will bring PLENTY.