Obama can't avoid global warming issue - The Connecticut Post Online

WASHINGTON (AP) -- When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid.

Since Clinton's inauguration, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas. The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton's second inauguration. Global warming is accelerating. Time is close to running out, and Obama knows it.
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Scientists are increasingly anxious, talking more often and more urgently about exceeding "tipping points."

"We're out of time," Stanford University biologist Terry Root said. "Things are going extinct."
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Now some scientists, but not all, say the safe carbon dioxide level for Earth is about 10 percent below what it is now.

Gore called the situation "the equivalent of a five-alarm fire that has to be addressed immediately."
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Obama is stacking his Cabinet and inner circle with advocates who have pushed for deep mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas pollution and even with government officials who have achieved results at the local level.
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Mother Nature, of course, is oblivious to the federal government's machinations. Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it's thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.

Gateway Pundit: Al Gore: "North Pole Will Disappear in 5 Years" (Video)

The Goracle spoke to an audience in Germany this week where he told them that "the entire North Polarized cap will disappear in 5 years."

Heliogenic Climate Change: For once Al Gore is right

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Local News | Brrr...Break out that blanket! | Seattle Times Newspaper

Temperatures are expected to drop below freezing by tonight and could stay low for seven days straight.

If that happens, Seattle-area residents could be in for one of the longest streaks of cold temperatures in about 70 years, said Jay Albrecht, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service.