ENVIRONMENT: Arctic melting: don’t spoil a good story with the facts*

Satellite images showing that the Arctic ice-caps are expanding have made no impact on devotees of global warming, writes Peter Westmore.Comparison of Arctic ice capsNovember 2007 and November 2008.(Satellite images from University of Illinois web site).Every day, the media publish new reports of alarming warming of the polar ice-caps, the latest being that the lemmings are jumping off cliffs in Norway to escape the heat. Meanwhile, environmentalists have had polar bears declared an endangered s…

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