March of the Lemmings by Dana Joel

Remember the headlines last summer, spurred by the release of Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, warning that massive amounts of Antarctica’s ice sheets are melting, threatening to raise sea levels 20 feet worldwide and wipe out Antarctica’s emperor penguins and polar bears? Remember the alarming reports that Greenland’s glaciers are shrinking so rapidly that a third of Florida and the lower part of Manhattan could be swept away within the next 200 years?

Well guess what? The long awaited Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report summary released this month threw some badly needed cold water on that over-heated hype. According to the IPCC, based on the work of 2,500 scientists around the globe, Antarctica’s ice sheets will “remain too cold for widespread surface melting” and “is expected to gain in mass due to increased snowfall.”

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