Dwindling sea ice is affecting wildlife.

no its not because a judge in Britain ruled that polar bears did not drown in the Arctic ; AL gore and a team of scientists are wrong ; and a judge cant be wrong ; oh ! OK, file an appeal ; ill launch an appeal for the polar bears ; but will it help ; can i be awarded costs for the judges error in decision ; i can ? good ; oh the appeal won ; but the polar bears did not ; oh never mind i will buy an airplane instead to fly around and preach the word of g*d ; never mind the polar bears there gone ;

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years.

Greenland's ice sheet melted nearly 19 billion tons more than the previous high mark, and the volume of Arctic sea ice at summer's end was half what it was just four years earlier, according to new NASA satellite data obtained by The Associated Press.