While there very much is a thing such as Global Warming, the debate is over whether we have accelerated it or not. And the jury is still very much out on this one. There are a lot of studies out there which show that the Ice Caps would be melting anyway. 20 years ago, Scientists were worried about another Ice Age due to Global Cooling. Who is correct? I’m not informed enough to have an opinion, but dismissing the other outright? Whatever information we have about Climate change goes back to the Industrial Revolution, so what does “above average” and “below average” really mean? What scale are we using to determine this? Humans themselves have barely been on this earth, and lord only knows what kind of environmental changes the Earth has gone through since its birth.

Walt Meier, also at the Colorado centre, said: “Having four years in a row with such low ice extents has never been seen before in the satellite record. It clearly indicates a downward trend, not just a short term anomaly.”

No. It clearly indicates a downward trend since satellites were employed to track the changes in ice Maybe this a is a 50 year fluctuation? Is there any evidence to suggest otherwise? 50 years ago, we didn’t have satellites to track ice melthing. Can you say for sure that this is not cyclical? That for some time the ice melts, then for some other time it starts freezing again? And what is “Short-Term” in Earth-time? I’m not dismissing the fact that maybe Human Beings have wreaked havoc on the planet. It’s is far from being clear cut.