The only thing likely to disappear is any record he made the claim. When it doesn’t happen, they will remove the article just like the ones about the Obama/Blago meeting.
Well if that is true then what land under the Pole will be prime development property for the future.
Sept 2008 made a moderate recovery from the 2007 minimum, but it was still historically low. Sept 2007 was what sent everybody into a panic, predicting the North Pole would be open water in 2008, as it would have been if it continued to recede as dramatically as it had been doing since 2000. Even so, this recovery may be a "dead cat bounce", and while it's reason to hope things might be swinging the other way, there's no reason for confidence that the 2007 minimum won't be surpassed in the near future.