Greenland and Antarctica's accelerating ice loss, page-18

all good entertaining stuff - so a few climate scientists get carried away from time to time

But here's what the IPCC was saying in 2007, so it looks to me like the peer review and IPCC process delivers what it should - good critique and correction of outlier views. But also rather conservative reporting a long way from the fun quotes you guys have come up with. Why do you guys always misrepresent the real, concensus, peer reviewed science so badly? I can only guess.

"Warming is expected to cause a reduction in the area covered by sea ice, which in turn will allow increased absorption of solar radiation and a further increase in temperature. In some climate models, this sea ice-albedo feedback has led to amplification of projected warming at higher latitudes, more in the Arctic Ocean than in the Southern Ocean. At some point, with prolonged warming a transition to an Arctic Ocean that is ice-free in summer—and perhaps even in the winter—could take place. The possibility of a transition to an ice-free Arctic Ocean that is irreversible also must be considered. Climate models predict a wide range of changes for polar sea ice by the year 2100 (see TAR WGI Chapter 1). Many of the earlier models treated sea ice very simplistically and were not coupled with the ocean, so their results are unlikely to be reliable. More recent climate models include sophisticated sea-ice routines that take into account the dynamics and thermodynamics that control sea-ice formation, transport, and melt (Everett and Fitzharris, 1998). These models, however, still are limited in their ability to reproduce detailed aspects of sea-ice distribution and timing.

it's also noticeable that the cherry picked views posted above are; many from just one scientist; one from a student; many talking about possibilities rather than certainties. But, hey, don't let the facts get in the way of a good story chaps. What the IPCC was saying was quite conservative. It's not as fun as picking off a few random quotes, but it is the truth of the matter.