Now, I'm not sure what the Times» shift in thinking is with the article — and after more than a decade of consistent gloom - and -
doom reporting and editorializing on global warming, I would imagine that the Green - leaning newspaper does not intend to rethink its position on the scare — but it's going to take more than the mere
economic exploitation of a shrinking polar ice cap to establish human activity as the
cause of the melting.