Comments:Study: Arctic ice could be gone by 2020

Ted Scambos is an idiot
Right now - the Arctic helps keep the Earth cool. Without that Arctic ice, or with much less of it, the Earth will warm much faster. The IPCC report was very careful, very thorough and cautious, so they erred on the side of what would certainly occur as opposed to what might occur.

For an expert he does sound pretty stupid. The ice can only cool the rest earth by melting. If the amount of ice were growing, then the ice would be warming the rest of the planet, ostensibly. But it is idiocy because the ice is part the earth, these aren't ice cubes that were magically added to cool down the earth.

When people speak of global warming, the speak of average global temperatures. That includes the ice, Ted! The earth - it is one eco-system. Theoretically if we made every place on earth the same temperature, we could still lower the temperature of the planet and still melt all the ice. --SVTCobra 13:46, 3 May 2007 (UTC)