Summer 2010: More warmists get chilled in the Arctic

Manhattan Beach Patch, CA - From the Arctic: Stepping Into the Field

We also discovered we were not dressed warmly enough, and most vowed to return after lunch with better/more layers for our afternoon in the field.
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The evening concluded with a lecture entitled Climate Change: Cryosphere, Treeline and Global Warming. Dr. Kershaw was warned it had better be incredibly stimulating because the team seemed to be fading at dinner. The evidence for warming is compelling and the big rises are post industrial, suggesting human activity as the cause. (Kershaw put forth a fascinating theory he had heard that a period of cooling may be due to the Bubonic Plague and the return of so much land to forest.)

Manhattan Beach Patch, CA - From the Arctic: Of Ptarmigans and Permafrost

The weather was 5° C (41° F) and foggy because of cold air blowing in off the Hudson Bay, which still has some ice on it this time of year.
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The evening lecture presented data on the amount of carbon frozen in the permafrost (50 percent of the world's total). Melting of the permafrost will release this carbon as carbon dioxide or methane, two major greenhouse gases. These gases in turn warm the climate releasing more gases. The northern polar regions are warming as much as twice as fast as the rest of the world. This is a classic positive feedback mechanism.

Note how warmists dress for "summer" in an allegedly overheated Arctic

[Churchill weather for June 22, 2010:  CO2 drove the high temperature all the way up to 48 degrees F]

Max Temperature 48 °F [Record 82 degrees in 1999]