Wednesday, August 26, 2009

[Should we spend $45 trillion trying to reverse this trend?!]: Trees expand their habitats as Earth gets warmer
Of 166 sites studied across the world, trees are advancing at more than half, while they are receding at just two sites.
[Pure evil?  At the height of the summer ice melt, sailors actually wish for more melting]
It wasn't the last ice we'd see; in fact, as the day progressed, ice floes would once again be our little planet's defining symbols. For weeks now, we've been obsessed with the yellows, reds and greens of the ice charts, waiting for the shades to align in our favor. They've become something like Rubik's Cube, a puzzle we've been dying to master. For us, however, we're not trying to align the cubes in one solid color; no, we've been waiting for the colors to crack and disappear, to give way to a beautiful expanse of blue. For blue means clear water, a path out of the Northwest Passage and back to a world we've left far behind. Today, in the real-life Arctic, we've still got ice, but there are also glorious patches of blue. Closer. We're getting closer.
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"Even though it is now mid-morning with a temperature of 32° we are enjoying rare clear skies and sunshine while picking our way through pieces of slowly melting white and blue ice moving along with the current. Dave Logan just reported more ice ahead of us, larger floes extending across our course all the way to shore.
Climate change bill brings fight for spotlight in rallies | tennessean.com | The Tennessean
Tuesday's rally, featuring free T-shirts, a barbecue lunch, and a videotaped message from country music star Trace Adkins, was one in a series of about 20 planned around the country by a controversial group called "Energy Citizens," largely a coalition of special interest, industry and conservative groups.
Does the media ever describe a pro-climate fraud rally as planned by "a coalition of special interest, industry and liberal groups"?

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