Polar ice: Less in the Arctic, more in the Antarctic | CAIVN

Arctic sea ice is at its lowest level in thousands of years...
...clearly, something is happening. The Arctic is becoming ice free. This is new. And the Antarctic is becoming icier. However, there’s a good reason that ‘climate change’ is a better term than ‘global warming’. It implies that the results will vary depending on where you are. Everything doesn’t get warmer. Some areas will get colder.

Flashback: November 2nd, 1922. Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt. | Watts Up With That?

Cold snap in South America: 100,000 euros of emergency aid for victims of the cold weather in Peru and Bolivia

Bonn, 29.07.2010 Welthungerhilfe is providing 100,000 euros of emergency relief aid to help the victims of the current cold snap in South America. A large part of the funds is being provided by the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. In view of the unusually severe winter, the aid agency is also asking the German population for donations.
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"This extreme winter is again hitting the poorest and most vulnerable people the hardest", explains Jeannette Weller, Welthungerhilfe's Regional Director in Lima, "and that means desperate hardship for many poor farmers in high-altitude remote districts and that old people and children are in immediate danger."

Where next for the wrecked US climate [scam] bill? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Sitting with Al Gore in an empty hotel café, I asked him to contemplate this very moment. "If the United States doesn't act," he replied, "if the Senate defeats the legislation or waters it down to a point where it is not even worth having a bill, that is an event horizon beyond which it is difficult to see."

He parsed the same issues then that climate campaigners are parsing now: "It may mean there is a fundamental flaw in the international political approach, but I'm not sure there is a good alternative. The reality is so dire that a new plan would have to emerge — but just now I can't imagine what it would be."
...Let's look for lessons by considering some of the culprits, starting with the most obvious.

1. The Professional Deniers. Gore and environmental leaders made a tactical error several years ago when they declared the science "settled" and refused to engage the forces of denial and delay. The basic science was indeed settled, but the resulting message vacuum was the perfect medium for those who sow doubt and confusion about global climate change. It shouldn't be surprising that so many Americans remain skeptical about global warming. For 20 years, this loose network of PR pros, working for industry associations and anti-tax think tanks, has spread doubt about climate science and fear about climate economics, claiming that any attempt to cap CO2 would wreck the American economy. Their disinformation, amplified via the Internet, helped poison the debate. To counter the deniers' campaign, President Obama needs to speak out forcefully, and champions of the clean energy economy must point to the new jobs that are already being created by the renewable energy economy and show Americans precisely where they fit into it.