According to your data Mr. Sheppard of historical fact, the stunning part is how quickly ice will form into massive sheets within a few years and not in the melting.

My reason for interest has been the glacier sheets which covered North America in reference to what would be termed the Biblical clock. While it is proven the earth's atmosphere changed "in the flood" from mists to rain, more evidence points not to a global ice age causing glaciers but the literal volume of water which covered the earth and in typical winter season created ice sheets.

The speed with which the historical data shows ice forming confirms it is possible with a very short time with the added cold of ice not melting during summer seasons that Noah's flood waters actually created the glaciers.

What is interesting is the Greenland ice record showing horrendous winds and massive dust storms from North America, but in a remarkable "healing" the coastal areas had Phoenician traders and by the Viking era the melt had created navigation into the northern plains into Colorado.

The near history of earth shows the ability to create massive ice sheets in decades and in the same short time melt offs which people have not experienced in written records.

While the Vikings were navigating during a warming period the spice traders were unable to find a north passage around Siberia several hundred years later.

Thank you for posting this as Gorification of data is slowly being rectified with literal written evidence because who will one believe in the end, Amundsen or Al Gore.

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

....which continually make hysterical historical claims that intentionally ignore historical facts.

LOL-Geez, try saying that three times fast.

This is just example #14,658,744,551 of the hysterically liberal home-grown MSM furthering their not-so-humorous socialist agenda by taking advantage of the huge herd of hysterically historically ignorant (or is that historic) ignorance which is now held forth by the now well-homogenized (and damn near lobotomized) homely Amurrican dumbmAsses.

Sadly, there is a huge and growing host of home-grown hysterically historically ignorant Amurrican home-dwellers who will no-doubt fall for this historically inaccurate report, and humbly buy every horrible horse-sh*t prediction held therein.

In any event, it isn't funny.

BTW-If the Polar Bears are going to become endangered due to the reduced ice area, then how is it they survived 1905 when Mr. Amundsen made his journey?

"I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!”- Rick Roberts

Water exists as a liquid or a solid at 32 degrees fahrenheit. If you want to calibrate a thermometer, stick it in a glass filled equally with ice and water. It should read 32 degrees f. Until someone can show that the Arctic or Antarctic are above 32 degrees fahrenheit, then any melting of glaciers in these regions must be due to forces other than ambient temperature.

In other words, even if the ambient temperature in these regions reached 31 degrees fahrenheit, they would remain solid. (salinity of water could change this, but not by much). 

If it did melt (which it won't), THEN SO WHAT?!!!

It will provide cheaper shipping routes, it will bring spring weather to the Yukon, it will expand Canada's growing season, hundreds of people won't be dying every year from freezing-temperature-related illnesses, and WINTER WILL BE SHORTENED.

Globalwarmingtologists are hell-bent on their apocalyptic liberalism ... look at THE POSITIVES to your apocalypticisms, global warmists.

Arctic Winter Ice 1979-2005 (Animation) (NASA)

The Anti "Man-Made" Global Warming Resource

Facts about the Arctic from Norway:

Climate variation in the European Arctic during the last 100 years
I. Hanssen-Bauer & E. J. Førland, met.no
 In the present poster, selected data from the “NARP dataset”
(http://projects.met.no/~narp/data_index.html) and the “NORDKLIM dataset”
(http://www.smhi.se/hfa_coord/nordklim/nkds.htm) are presented and related to April sea-ice cover in the Nordic Seas and to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Arctic Oscillation (AO) winter indices. The first two decades of the century were cold at all stations with measurements in this period. Still, Mann-Kendalls non-parametric test revealed that only a few series (from Iceland and northern Norway) show a statistically significant warming (5% level or better) from 1900 to 2002. Førland et al. (2002) actually concluded that none of the stations showed a statistically significant warming from 1910-1999. The reason is that the cold period in the beginning of the century was followed by a rapid warming and some warm decades before a period of cooling and finally a new period of warming at the end of the century. At many stations in the area, the thermal optimum of the 20th century was experienced around the 1930s, and the period 1930 to 1960 was generally warmer than the 1961-1990 average. In the north-eastern part of the area the following cooling was rapid. The 1960s were very cold, and mainly followed by a warming trend during the rest of the century. At the southernmost stations in Iceland and the Faroe Islands, there was a more gradual cooling to a minimum around 1980. At the westernmost stations in Greenland, the cooling continued to around 1990.

And from the Alaska Climate Research Centre:

The period 1949 to 1975 was substantially colder than the period from 1977 to 2003, however since 1977 no additional warming has occurred in Alaska with the exception of Barrow and a few other locations. In 1976, a stepwise shift appears in the temperature data, which corresponds to a phase shift of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation from a negative phase to a positive phase.

On Sea Ice extent:

Vinje (2001) published series of April Sea-ice extent in western (30oW-10oE) and eastern (10oE-70oE) parts of the Nordic Seas/Barents Sea region from 1864 to 1998. These series were correlated to annual mean temperatures from the present dataset. In most cases, there is an anti-correlation between the annual mean temperatures and the April sea-ice extent, and generally the anti-correlation is most pronounced for the sea-ice extent in the sector the station is located. The Greenland stations, however, which are located west of both sectors, tend to show a positive correlation with the ice extent in the eastern sector. We can recognise the Arctic Oscillation see-saw (e.g. Rigor et al. 2002): High AOI is associated with high air temperatures and reduced sea-ice in the Barents Sea region, but low temperatures and extensive sea-ice in the Labrador area. The correlation between sea-ice extent in the Nordic Seas and temperatures in western Greenland is not stationary: For 30year periods from the 1960s to the 1990s there is a positive correlation (+0.5) even with the sea-ice in the western area. For 30-year periods in the beginning of the century, however, the correlation was negative (-0.4).

First-Hand Accounts from 19th Century Explorers' Logs for the Canadian Arctic Reflect Similar Climate Conditions as Present.
Kevin R, Wood • Arctic Research Qffice & James E Overland • Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, 2004.

Examination of explorers' logs for the western Arctic from 1818 to 1910 reveals that climate indicators such as navigability, the distribution and thickness of annual sea ice, monthly surface air temperature, and the onset of melt and freeze were within the present range of variability. Forty four scientific reports and related narratives were analyzed; many from expeditions spanning several years. The majority of data come from large naval expeditions that had the capacity to support an intensive scientific program through the Arctic winter. The ship tracks and winter-over location of Arctic discovery expeditions from 1818 to 1859 are surprisingly consistent with present sea ice climatology. The climatology shown reflects percent frequency of sea ice presence on September 10, which Is the usual date of annual ice minimum, for the reference period 1971-2000 [Canadian Ice Service, 2002]. On a number of occasions expeditions came within 150 km of completing the Northwest Passage. By 1859, all possible routes comprising the Northwest Passage had been discovered.