Positive (?) Feedbacks in a Warming Arctic | KQED's Climate Watch

According to Breck Bowden, a scientist from the University of Vermont who studies permafrost here at Toolik, the latest modeling shows that approximately half of the permafrost in the Arctic will thaw in the next 50 years.
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Bowden was careful to point out that thermokarsts are a natural phenomenon. (They also have been known to occur when roads and houses are built in the Arctic without proper insulation.) But he also believes that the increase in thermokarsts observed in remote areas around Toolik is not natural.

"Thermokarsts have been going on as long as there's been an arctic landscape, and there have been more of them when it’s warmer and fewer of them when it’s colder," he said. "But I do firmly believe that there are more of them now than there were 20 years ago, as a consequence of warming we can document in a variety of places. The question is, why is the warming occurring?"

Slate.com blogs : What Looks Worst for Al Gore? The Al Gore Defenders.

...These are the readers of a liberal website? Again: I have no idea what happened. And neither do any of these people.

We could have a conversation all day long about the problem of balancing the rights of the accused with deference to the particular problems of rape victims. I would not always end up on the side of feminism in that discussion. But this is disgusting

Maggie's Notebook: Gore Response to Masseuse Story: Enquirer Did Not Pay Massage Therapist

When an accused person indicates they remember the incident differently, they're lying. He obviously remembers this particular massage therapist, this particular night in this particular hotel.

Yes, Gore remembers it well, and not in hindsight. His attorneys have been trying to keep it under the rug since 2007, once again in 2008 - and used not-so-subtle threats when talking to the Portland Tribune...