06.28.2008 2:09 pm
No more ice in North Pole by the end of this summer?
The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado (CNN). Even though there are many other elements like specific weather patterns, which determines whether the North Pole’s ice cover melts completely this summer, this news bring the climate change debate over the whole summer to a conclusion, at least to some extent. the North Pole has a symbolic meaning in scientific research. There’s supposed to be ice at the North Pole. If it happened that we may not have any ice as predicted by scientists by the end of this summer, this would be quite a symbolic change, and a clear answer to our debate.
Dr. Abduwasit Ghulam is a geospatial and environmental scientist from the Center for Environmental Sciences at Saint Louis University. He has been actively involved in research and education in remote sensing and GIS, climate change, human interactions on the changing environment and natural disasters such as droughts and floods. 
Is it true or not that the North Pole is ice free every summer? Also, this could be a good thing if the Democrats would let us drill for oil there instead of having to get it from the Middle East. Right? Like they say, make lemonade out of lemons.