Something is rotten in Norway - 500,000 sq-km of sea ice disappears overnight « Watts Up With That?

I had planned to do a post yesterday evening about how sea ice area and extent had returned to very near normal levels. But I was tired, so I saved off the graphs from the NANSEN arctic sea ice site.

This morning I was shocked to discover that overnight, huge amounts of sea ice simply disappeared. Fortunately I had saved the images and a copy of the webpage last night. Here is the before and after in a blink comparator...

Meet the plane stoppers - Times Online

Yet while public support for Plane Stupid’s cause is substantial, their tactics have yet to win over the nation. A poll conducted for The Sunday Times this weekend found that just 8% of the public support the methods used by Plane Stupid protesters, although 40% said they did support their motives. Attitudes towards airport expansion are more divided: 50% support expansion while 30% are opposed and 20% have not made up their minds.

Activism at Stanstead: Flight of fancy, or a far-sighted protest? | Environment | The Guardian

While some have characterised the action as that of "militant environmentalists", the group argues that what is seen today as dangerously radical will one day be accepted. "We are definitely on the radical end of the spectrum and that is where we wish to be," says Moos. "Visionaries are initially seen as radical before the mainstream catches up with them and accepts their policies."

Interview with Ralph Cicerone, president of the US National Academy of Sciences

TT: Skeptics say humans are not responsible for climate change. Are you saying that we are?

Cicerone: Yes, I think the evidence is overwhelming; the evidence is also completely scientific.

There is a misunderstanding that this issue is a political one. Certainly there are choices that need to be made, which are governed partly by politics, but I am referring to the scientific evidence, and these changes are caused by human activities.

Up until maybe 10 years ago, some people thought the sun was causing some of the warming … but we now have enough high quality data [that] show the sun’s output is not increasing during this period of climate change, so [this] theory is no longer tenable.