Arctic ice won’t melt. UPDATE And reef won’t die

Arctic ice won’t melt. UPDATE And reef won’t die

Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Al Gore, who predicted an ice-free Arctic within the next four years, will be disappointed. Despite all the scaremongering in the media, the ice extent is now the highest in five years.

UPDATE

Steven Goddard says other measurements show Arctic ice at a seven year high, and worldwide ice approaching a 20-year high:

UPDATE 2

The ice won’t melt, and now the reef won’t die. Curses! The reef-is-doomed climate alarmist Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is foiled again:

Marine scientists say they are astonished at the spectacular recovery of certain coral reefs in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park from a devastating coral bleaching event in 2006… However, a lucky combination of rare circumstances meant the reefs were able to achieve a spectacular recovery, with abundant corals re-established in a single year, says Dr Guillermo Diaz-Pulido, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) and the Centre for Marine Studies at The University of Queensland.

But Ove still butts in to but-but-but:

“Coral reefs globally are increasingly being damaged by mass bleaching and climate change, and their capacity to recovery from that damage is critical to their future,” explains Prof. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of CoECRS and The University of Queensland.

Uh huh.