"Global Warming Creating Louder, Polluted Oceans"

Keith Hester, a researcher with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, predicts sounds will travel 70 percent farther in 2050 as a result of increased carbon dioxide acidifying our oceans.

Couldn't you just as easily spin that as a wonderful thing, since Nemo's dad could now allegedly hear Nemo's cries for help at a greater distance?  If sound carries farther, maybe endangered whales could more easily find mates?

World’s Carbon Trading Markets Vulnerable to Enron Type Accounting Scandals According to Sequence Staffing - Carbon Offsets Daily

ROSEVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The world’s carbon trading markets are extremely vulnerable to accounting scandals like those symbolized by Enron, WorldCom and Tyco according to leading greenhouse gas and climate change experts and professionals in an international survey released today by Sequence Staffing and the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute.

TED2009: Al Gore - Boing Boing

Al Gore is showing animation of the Arctic Ice cap. Over the last 25 years the permanent ice has diminished. A massive amount of frozen carbon is being released. In some shallow lakes in Alaska, methane is bubbling out of the water. He plays a video of a woman igniting methane coming out of an ice hole in a lake.

TED2009: Al Gore - Boing Boing

Did any of the geniuses in the audience question why they had to first drill a hole through the frozen ice surface of the lake?

Methane is a natural product of decomposition.