But the ice is gone again.

But I'm sure you'll resort to some kind of Scripture to explain this away.

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"Martin Jeffries of the U.S. National Science Foundation and University
of Alaska Fairbanks said in a statement Tuesday that the summer's ice
shelf loss is equivalent to over three times the area of Manhattan,
totaling 82 square miles — losses that have reduced Arctic Ocean ice
cover to its second-biggest retreat since satellite measurements began
30 years ago.

"These changes are irreversible under the present climate and indicate
that the environmental conditions that have kept these ice shelves in
balance for thousands of years are no longer present," said Mueller.

During the last century, when ice shelves would break off, thick sea ice
would eventually reform in their place.

"But today, warmer temperatures and a changing climate means there's no
hope for regrowth. A scary scenario," said Mueller.

The loss of these ice shelves means that rare ecosystems that depend on
them are on the brink of extinction, said Warwick Vincent, director of
Laval University's Centre for Northern Studies and a researcher in the
program ArcticNet.

"The Markham Ice Shelf had half the biomass for the entire Canadian
Arctic Ice Shelf ecosystem as a habitat for cold, tolerant microbial
life; algae that sit on top of the ice shelf and photosynthesis like
plants would. Now that it's disappeared, we're looking at ecosystems on
the verge of extinction,' said Mueller."