Well...here are those foolish know nothing scientists again making up gibberish about global warming for the fun of it, just to panic everyone, lol. I'm sure the AM radio shows will be buzzing with their own outlook on this latest news...we'll have to suffer Lowell Green and other's as they apply their worldly wisdom and scientific understanding to these latest facts. I'm being facetious btw. It sickens me to read this and realize how little has been accomplished and what we're losing as a result. When Lowell Green and others start spouting it really reminds one of a pair of old men playing checkers on some store porch in the backwaters of rural Ontario...never having left their part of the world but they are experts none-the-less....harsh of me? Perhaps but critical times require bluntness. Hurray for the scientists who haven't given up the good fight:

Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?

Seth Borenstein in Washington
Associated Press

December 12, 2007

An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer—a sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point.

One scientist even speculated that summer sea ice could 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 ago, according to new NASA satellite data obtained by the Associated Press (AP).

"The Arctic is screaming," said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the government's snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colorado.

2012

Just last year two top scientists surprised their colleagues by projecting that the Arctic sea ice was melting so rapidly that it could disappear entirely by the summer of 2040.

This week, after reviewing his own new data, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: "At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions."

So scientists in recent days have been asking themselves these questions: Was the record melt seen all over the Arctic in 2007 a blip amid relentless and steady warming? Or has everything sped up to a new climate cycle that goes beyond the worst case scenarios presented by computer models?

"The Arctic is often cited as the canary in the coal mine for climate warming," said Zwally, who as a teenager hauled coal. "Now as a sign of climate warming, the canary has died. It is time to start getting out of the coal mines."

The burning of coal, oil, and other fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are responsible for man-made global warming. For the past several days, government diplomats have been debating in Bali, Indonesia, the outlines of a new climate treaty calling for tougher limits on these gases.

What happens in the Arctic has implications for the rest of the world. Faster melting there means eventual sea level rise and more immediate changes in winter weather because of less sea ice.

In the United States, a weakened Arctic blast moving south to collide with moist air from the Gulf of Mexico can mean less rain and snow in some areas, including the drought-stricken Southeast, said Michael MacCracken, a former federal climate scientist who now heads the nonprofit Climate Institute.

Some regions, like Colorado, would likely get extra rain or snow.

More than 18 scientists told the AP that the level of ice melt this year surprised them.

"I don't pay much attention to one year ... but this year the change is so big, particularly in the Arctic sea ice, that you've got to stop and say, 'What is going on here?' You can't look away from what's happening here," said Waleed Abdalati, NASA's chief of cyrospheric sciences. "This is going to be a watershed year."

To read further please go to: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071212-AP-arctic-melt_2.html

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Greetings Citizens of our Beautiful World,

As I become more and more disenchanted with the world's ambivalence towards the actual real threat of global warming on our environment, lives, and world species, at the Bali conference I felt it necessary to establish a forum where other disenchanted "environmentalists" can voice their opinions and share news that tracks the progression of global warming. You know...I really detest labels and yes I am an environmentalist and am descended from environmentalist activists but if you care about your home, ie, the earth does that mean you deserve a label? In reality everyone should be environmentalists because we all live on this amazingly intricate planet and no one will be able to escape the ravages of Global Warming.

Yes, Yes, Yes...it's so ubber trendy now to question the global warming "facts" and to rip apart Al Gore...all these talk show hosts on Am morning shows who dig up obscure scientists who say that actually global warming is really non-existent or just a natural warming trend...when in reality if one researches these "scientists" one learns that they haven't published anything in like 20 years or that they receive funding for their research from large corporations or the "Friends of Carbon Fuels". What is humorous about all this is these people easily dismiss the facts produced by professionals who have devoted entire careers to studying climate change and human's impact on the environment. Who are these critics?? This is would be akin to me walking into a cancer research lab and saying "You know what folks? You have it all wrong...you need to start looking at it from this angle or from this theory". I mean really! Why do we have scientists and other professionals out there who are paid to explore issues and then provide feedback to the general ignorant population? I would rather trust scientists who are passionate and committed to their careers, who have nothing to gain or lose by presenting their research, than politicians who have fingers in corporate pies and fossil fuel companies.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his side-kick Environment Minister John Baird are so pathetically transparent in their reluctance to allow Canada to develop leadership in the fight against global warming....hmmm...conservative base support=Alberta, oil fields, big corporations. This party highlights its platform as reduced government and not hurting big business...so should we be surprised when the they stall an entire conference on global warming??

This brings up another boogeyman: Crashing economies because companies/industry are forced to reduce their emissions. Interesting that European economies are successful yet they have reduced emissions at a far great rate than us over the last decade. What else is fascinating is how there is this whole green economy waiting to be profiteered out there with jobs galore but we choose to hedge our bets with oil companies and outdated industrial practices.

It is sad...and if anything I hope this blog will forever keep alive the names of individuals like Stephen Harper and John Baird so that future generations can remember their names as those who failed the world. I will also make it my personal mission to ensure that future textbooks will highlight the failures of these two individuals (I have contacts in the publishing world, hahaha) and how Canada will hold them responsible for our disappearing Arctic, extreme prairie droughts, etc.

I feel sorry for the scientists of our world who have devoted so much time and energy to this whole issue while ignorant big business politicians poohpooh it all...for them it must be like watching themselves in a poorly directed science fiction film...them desperately warning the world and everyone going about their selfish daily lives...as the planet slips beyond repair.

I hope it's all worth it people...to all of you armchair skeptics who've never visited a climatologist lab, the arctic, or have taken the time to pour over the UN's climate reports. I also hope none of you have children or grandchildren out there...because your indifference, when things are at their most serious, is really on par to war crimes...and you have failed your future descendants....for what?

I welcome critics but really your criticisms are so out of whack in the face of the piles of evidence that it will only be amusing jibber jabber by uneducated individuals who want to make shock statements.