AFP: Luxury igloos chill out the Davos crowd

Iglu-Dorf is built out of packed snow, but the network of 15 igloos linked by tunnels looks more like a cross between neolithic caves and an eco-housing complex perched in the Alps.

They also offer some creature comforts that are not so common on the wild expanse of polar icecap, such as a sauna and whirlpool bath. And they were not hewn out of ice.

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I just updated my website uhaweb.hartford.edu to include critical comments on AGW by a Nobel Laureate in Physics (Ivar Gaiever) at a Lindau panel where other Laureates were (to say the least) not as forthcoming...

Turtle fossil allegedly shows how 'super-greenhouse effect' created tropical Arctic - Telegraph

The professor, who published his findings in the journal Geology, added: "We found this turtle right on top of the last flood basalts - a large stretch of lava from a series of giant volcanic eruptions.

"That leads us to believe that the warming may have been caused by volcanoes pumping tremendous amounts of carbon dioxide into the Earth's atmosphere.

"There is evidence that this volcanic activity happened all around the planet - not just the Arctic.

"If it all happened on a short-enough timescale, it could cause a super-greenhouse effect."

NASA Fact Sheets: Volcanoes and Global Cooling

Global cooling often has been linked with major volcanic eruptions. The year 1816 often has been referred to as "the year without a summer." It was a time of significant weather-related disruptions in New England and in Western Europe with killing summer frosts in the United States and Canada. These strange phenomena were attributed to a major eruption of the Tambora volcano in 1815 in Indonesia. The volcano threw sulfur dioxide gas into the stratosphere, and the aerosol layer that formed led to brilliant sunsets seen around the world for several years.