Global warming? Baltic Sea ice cover largest since 1987

Baltic Sea, Saulkrasti, Latvia, 1998.

According to the Baltic Times, Finnish meteorologists say the ice cover on the Baltic Sea is the largest it has been since 1987. Last week the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute estimated the ice cover at 155,000 square miles, which is a little larger than Montana, and the scientists said the ice pack could grow even bigger.

Click here for a graphic display of the ice cover.

That's your global warming news for today.

Yes, that's really me--along with Little Marathon Pundit--in the photograph, on a summer day on the Baltic many years ago.

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