NRDC Blames Glacial Rebound On Global Warming | Real Science

Sea levels have been rising and glacial ice has been melting for 20,000 years. This would continue even if the climate was identical every single year.

What do they think glacial rebound is? It is a by-product of glaciers melting.

Extreme Cold In Greenland | Real Science

Temperatures forecast to hit -79F this fine October weekend.

Review & Outlook: The Unseen Carbon Agenda - WSJ.com

The EPA wants to take away 7% of U.S. power generation.

Al's Journal : Facts Should Matter - Not Ideology

Unfortunately the Tea Party movement seems to want to make belief in science a political football.
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It’s not a surprise that the groups supporting the Tea Party are funded by the fossil fuel industry

Why are Republicans climate skeptics?

CHURCHVILLE—VA: The New York Times marvels editorially that none of the Republicans running for the Senate accept the “scientific consensus that humans are largely responsible for global warming.” Maybe that’s because the Republicans come from more rural (Red) states that haven’t had any warming—man-made or otherwise.

[Alarmists in the Arctic: Another sob story]

But there was far less ice than they imagined, and much of what they saw, says Riitta, was older pack ice pushed south by wind from higher latitudes, as the more southerly ice fields give way.

"There's less new ice because of global warming," she says. "And because there's less new ice, there's more old ice coming down from the north."

The thickest ice they encountered was in the Beaufort Sea, along the coast of Alaska, where at one point Pekka was forced to radio a helicopter, flying off a nearby oil drilling platform, for some eye-in-the-sky advice about the most navigable path forward.
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Riitta, an avid nature photographer, says she was most surprised by the lack of sea and wildlife. Although seals were abundant, she says they saw only a single polar bear, two caribou and one solitary whale during the entire passage.

"Because the ice is retreating, I think the area is empty of animals that depend on the ice," she says.

But worldwide, which areas are more empty of animals: the icy areas, or the non-icy areas?