Hype: Media Charged with Performing 'Climate Porn' on Arctic Ice Shipping Claims | Climate Depot

UK Lord Christopher Monckton, former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, challenged the media claims as well.

“The extent of summer-minimum sea ice, which fell to a 30-year minimum in 2007, recovered somewhat in 2008 and has recovered still further this year, coming close to the ten-year mean. And it bears repeating that, even if the entire Arctic ice-cap were to melt for a few weeks each summer, sea level would not rise by so much as a millimeter,” Monckton told Climate Depot. “Finally, the 2007 reduction in summer sea ice cannot have been caused by 'global warming', because there has been no statistically-significant 'global warming' for 15 years, and, by the late summer of 2007, there had been rapid and statistically-significant global cooling for six years,” Monckton added.

The Associated Press: [Although cooling may be a better bet,] Interior Dept. gets ready for global warming

WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar moved Monday to prepare the nation's parks, refuges and endangered species for the onslaught of global warming.

Salazar signed an order setting up a Climate Change Response Council and eight regional response centers to study and respond to such issues as rising sea levels threatening to swamp historic structures and warmer temperatures shifting where wildlife live.

The order also commits the Interior Department to develop a plan to reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions, including setting a firm target.

California feud breaks out on clean energy plan | U.S. | Reuters

"If the governor does not sign the bill ... we fear that there will be uncertainty and chaos in this market for years," said the wind group's executive director, Nancy Rader.