Your comment is based on pure opinion, and not science. The Antarctic loses a huge portion of its ice each summer, and it then rebuilds in the winter. But that is the ice that is FLOATING. The majority of the ice in Antarctica is on land, not on the water. And that ice has been declining at an ever faster rate for decades. The effect all this fresh water has on the ocean and ice formation, has little to do with the overall melting.

This strikes me as being your classic To Good To Be True story. It has long been known that there was ice made of Methane and Water - frozen together. But since when did it exist at the surface? This ice normally requires the pressure of the deep seas to keep it from reverting to it's gaseous form. How is it that they found this where it could be used on the surface? From: U.S. Geological Survey Marine and Coastal Geology Program >Methane hydrate is stable in ocean floor sediments at water depths greater than 300 meters, and where it occurs, it is known to cement loose sediments in a surface layer several hundred meters thick.> .... Me thinks this story has some credibility problems.

WHAT ! ! ! ARE YOU CRAZY ? ? ?

Ask an executive who makes million dollar bonuses to be RESPONSIBLE for his or her actions?

How un-American is that.

Only poor children without health care and a decent house to live in are supposed to be held responsible for their actions, not the Neo-Con, "Passionate" conservatives that run our companies into the ground and then bail with golden parachutes while you apply for unemployment.