Jon Petersen: The Daily Collegian - Is the globe really warming?

While many believe that the majority of the scientific community has been bought on the idea of global warming – along with much of the U.S. government – the reality is that the United States’ and United Nations’ environmental programs are run by – and have their policy written by – politicians who readily ignore the words of their own environmental consultants and scientists.

There isn't even consensus in the United Nations though and the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, told Mr. Gore last week in Davos that he doesn’t “think that there is any global warming,” adding “I don't see the statistical data for that."

Foolish/fraudulent claims by Brandon Keim | Wired Science from Wired.com

With arctic sea ice melting like ice cubes in soda, scientists want to protect a region they say will someday be the sole remaining frozen bastion of a disappearing world.
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Though some of the ice melts each summer, much of it remains frozen year-round — or, at least, it used to.

Summer melts are accelerating, and winter re-freezing can no longer make up the difference. Every summer now seems to be accompanied by news of unprecedented ice loss and more waters open for the first time in known history.
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Most experts say the polar bears' numbers are plummeting, and Canada is currently debating whether to classify them as threatened, as the United States did last year.

Protesters descend on Parliament House - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

About 2,000 climate change protesters dressed in red formed a circle around Parliament House this morning.

They are calling on the Government to make deeper cuts to emissions in its proposed carbon pollution reduction scheme.