Lai See | Greenpeace's Christmas warning can be put on ice

We see that Greenpeace has produced a touching Christmas video showing "Father Christmas" in a small dirty room with water dripping off the ceiling. His message is that he may not be able to deliver Christmas presents due to global warming.

"Dear children, I regrettably bring bad tidings. For some time now, melting ice here in the North Pole has made our operations and our day-to-day life intolerable and impossible and there may be no alternative but to cancel Christmas ... My home in the Arctic is fast disappearing and unless we all act urgently, then I have to warn you of the possibility of an empty stocking for ever more. Please help me."

But unbeknown to Father Christmas and, and apparently to Greenpeace, Arctic ice has made a spectacular rebound from the record low recorded last summer. This is only the third year since records were started in 1980 when more than 10 million square kilometres of new ice has formed.

The Arctic is unlikely to disappear any time soon.