Here's new NASA satellite video showing the astounding loss of Arctic sea ice.

From NASA: [1] The 2007 Arctic summer sea ice has reached the lowest extent of perennial ice cover on record - nearly 25% less than the previous low set in 2005.

The area of the perennial ice has been steadily decreasing since the satellite record began in 1979, at a rate of about 10% per decade. But the 2007 minimum, reached on September 14, is far below the previous record made in 2005 and is about 38% lower than the climatological average. Such a dramatic loss has implications for ecology, climate and industry.

And here's an oil and gas industry PR flak [2] in the form of Chris Horner, "Senior Fellow" at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, trying to spin this inconvenient truth on "The Climate Misinformation Channel:" [3]

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