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Global Warming or Global Freezing: is the ice really melting?
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President Obama just made a melodramatic appeal at the United Nations for global measures to dramatically curb what he called "the climate threat," current euphemism for what is more popularly known as Global Warming, the theory that man-made CO2 emissions from cars, coal pla …

rethinking being green
Source: www.TED.com

A new way of thinking about 'being green'.

Scary picture
Source: The New York Times

The ice is melting. Do you care?

Climate change at the poles IS man-made
Source: Independent.co.uk

For the first time scientists have been able to prove the link between the temperature changes in both polar regions are down to human activity and it also undermines climate sceptics who believe the warming trend seen in the Arctic in recent decades is part of the climate's natu …

We'll Tell Our Kids There Were Once Things Called 'Glaciers'
Source: UN Environment Program

Data from close to 30 reference glaciers in nine mountain ranges indicate that between the years 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 the average rate of melting and thinning more than doubled.

Tourism Companies Marketing Global Warming
Source: Inter Press Service (IPS)

Hurry! Hurry! See the polar bears, penguins, Arctic glaciers, small pacific islands before they disappear forever due to global warming.

Climate Change Affecting The Artic Region

On Oct. 2, 2007, New York Times published a news article about the climate changes that have been appearing in the Artic Region in the past decades.

Arctic ice melt opens Northwest Passage
Source: Yahoo! News

Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level on record, new satellite images show, raising the possibility that the Northwest Passage that eluded famous explorers will become an open shipping lane.

Arctic Regional Sea Ice to Decline More than 40%
Source: www.noaa.gov

A new study by NOAA scientists shows that areal sea-ice coverage of the Arctic Ocean will decline by more than 40 percent before the summer of 2050, compared to a 1979-1999 base period.

Analysts See 'Simply Incredible' Shrinking of Floating Ice in the Arctic - New York Times
Source: The New York Times

Nope, nothing to see here, definitely no climate change (and if there is any, it's not our fault).

New historic sea ice minimum
Source: Arctic Climate Research at the University of Illin

Today, the Northern Hemisphere sea ice area broke the record for the lowest recorded ice area in recorded history. The new record came a full month before the historic summer minimum typically occurs. There is still a month or more of melt likely this year.

Merchants of Fear: What Replaced Communism as the Global Threat?
Source: CounterPunch.org

No response is more predictable than the reflexive squawk of the Greenhouse fearmongers that anyone questioning their claims is in the pay of the energy companies.

Climate change: scientists warn it may be too late to save the ice caps
Source: Guardian Unlimited

A critical meltdown of ice sheets and severe sea level rise could be inevitable because of global warming, the world's scientists are preparing to warn their governments.

Climate Change: Too Late To Save Ice Caps?
Source: Guardian Unlimited

A critical meltdown of ice sheets and severe sea level rise could be inevitable because of global warming, the world's scientists are preparing to warn their governments.

Greenland melt 'speeding up'
Source: BBC News

The meltdown of Greenland's ice sheet is speeding up, satellite measurements show. Data from a US space agency (Nasa) satellite show that the melting rate has accelerated since 2004.

Greenland ice cap may be melting at triple speed
Source: New Scientist

The world's second largest ice cap may be melting three times faster than indicated by previous measurements, according to newly released gravity data collected by satellites.

Greenland Ice Cap May be Melting at Triple Speed
Source: New Scientist

The world's second largest ice cap may be melting three times faster than indicated by previous measurements, according to newly released gravity data collected by satellites.

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