Icy Reality Cools The Climate Cultists

July 31, 2008 DAILY, new evidence emerges to demonstrate that Climate Minister Penny Wong is wrong. The latest blow to the Government's apocalyptic prophet is news from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute that there is more ice than normal in the Arctic waters north of the Svalbard archipelago. According to the Barents Observer there are open areas in this area in most years during July - but this year the area is covered by ice. A fortnight ago a Norwegian research ship, Lance, and a Swedish ship, MV Stockholm, got stuck in the ice in the area and needed to be freed by the Norwegian Coast Guard. While one ice floe does not amount to a mini-ice age, the dramatic evidence runs counter to the mantra of the climate warming cult which has claimed the Arctic is becoming progressively free of ice. The mantra of less ice has long... [read full story]