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"Whata Fool" <whata@fool.ami> wrote in message
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> "hot frog" <short@tension.span>  wrote:
>
> >Too much ice? Check out http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/ .
> >
> >And just for fun:
> >North pole Sep 24, 2003:
> >http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/npole/2003/images/noaa1-2003-0924-0929.jpg
> >North pole Sep 24, 2007:
> >http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/npole/2007/images/noaa4-2007-0924-225057.jpg
>
>          Frog, you _OWE_ the readers of this newsgroup an apology,
> that last image has a bitmap text heading of Netcam XL #4, which
> has a current location (if a ship has not recovered it) NEAR THE
> SOUTHEAST COAST OF  GREENLAND !!!
>
>          Does anybody wonder why the NOAA arctic web sites do not
> have a search function?
>
>         Does anybody wonder why all the articles and images are
> 5 to 8 years old?
>
>         Will anybody wonder why the map of the current location
> of North Pole Webcam XL #4 is so hard to find?
>
>         Can anybody provide a map showing the location of
> North Pole Webcam XL #4 for any date 2005 through January 2008?
>
>         Is information not being made available for distribution because
> it does not support the scare tactics of Handsome and Algore?

Yep, sorry. Netcam XL #4 could have been on board ship for anything up to 11
days by Sep 24.
"Web Cam #3 was deployed on on the ice on Sep 13, 2007 by the R/V Polarstern
(from Alfred-Wegener-Institut), and is now frozen over. Web Cam 4 returned
on the ship to be deployed in Spring 2008."
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np.html

However, there was open water at the North Pole last year.
A mad pom went for a swim.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6899612.stm