Arctic Sea Ice Extent Average for 2012 is now higher than 2007 (NSIDC) « sunshine hours

The average Arctic Sea Ice Extent for 2012 is now 37,120 sq miles higher than 2007.

Climate Change, The Debate's Great Unmentionable : The New Yorker

[Warmist Elizabeth Kolbert] In the midst of what will almost certainly be the warmest year on record, climate change has become to the Obama Administration the Great Unmentionable, or, as the blogger Joe Romm has put it, The-Threat-That-Must-Not-Be Named.

The problem with the sort of energy debate we saw on Tuesday is not just that it’s fatuous, though it certainly is that. The problem is that you can’t solve a problem if you don’t even acknowledge it exists. The true challenge facing the next President is not how to bring down gas prices, which may or may not come down as a result of global trends. It’s how to move beyond the tired arguments of the past and act as if the future matters.

[NRDC:  Carbon dioxide causes walrus stampedes] | Francesca Koe's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

Climate change is the root cause of these stampeding deaths, which may have killed as many as 4,000 walruses in recent years, and sadly, unless something changes these numbers are going to keep going up as the density of the sea ice in the region decreases.

Flashback: Alarmist Suzanne Goldenberg thinks you're stupid: Can carbon dioxide make walrus herds grow so large that they ALL trample each other to death?