This is how they treat their friends? - Environment - MiamiHerald.com

They also refused to accept the Carter panel, or even pose for a picture with the students. Asked to do something easy and symbolic to rekindle a little of the joy that had turned out so many of us as volunteers for Obama in 2008, they point-blank said no.

If you want to know about the much-discussed enthusiasm gap between Democratic and Republican bases, this was it in action. As Altomare told the New York Times: "We went in without any doubt about the importance of this. They handed us a pamphlet." Nelson added: "It was really shocking to me to find out that they really didn't seem to care."
...As far as I can tell, the right has a far better understanding of the power of symbols. Witness the furor they've kicked up over "the mosque at ground zero." My feeling is that we should use the symbols we've got, and few are better than a solar panel.
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We've run out of spare decades to deal with climate change - the summer's events in the Arctic, in Russia, in Pakistan proved that with great clarity. We know what we need to do, and we must do it. Enthusiastically.

Norwegians "lose" ice artifacts to climate change / News / The Foreigner — Norwegian News in English.

The front edge of Jotunheimen’s Jovfonna ice sheet has retreated about 18 meters, uncovering objects from the Dark and Viking Ages dating as far back as 1,500 years.

Recently, the archeologists have uncovered no less than 600 important preserved hunting artifacts.

1. Aren't they "gaining" artifacts?

2. Are we supposed to believe that the cooling that covered the hunting grounds is preferable to the warming that uncovered these grounds? If so, are we hoping for the mile-thick ice to re-form over Chicago?:

When the glacier reached its southernmost limit about 20,000 years ago, the ice was a mile thick at Chicago--an enormous weight that depressed the land beneath. Later as the ice retreated and the glacier's weight was released