The Guilfordian : Years of global warming affect Arctic sea ice caps

“We don’t realize the consequence of our actions because as of right now, we aren’t the ones that have to suffer,” said sophomore Logan Hardin. “The polar bears rely on ice to get around, but with it melting, they will have to swim and they can’t swim forever.”
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Our actions as a society have finally caught up with us and the Arctic is one of the many victims.

The Anti-Free-Speech Brigade « NoFrakkingConsensus

When some people start to believe that other people don’t even deserve to be heard we’ve got a serious problem. Those 18,000 petition signers should hang their heads in shame.

They should also start thinking carefully about what kind of world we’ll end up with when opposing groups start calling for their voices to be banished from the airwaves.

Hollywood Transfers Hypocrisy From Global Warming to Fracking - Katie Pavlich

They just can't help themselves, Hollywood liberals live on the high of being a hypocrites. Remember all of the hysteria surrounding global warming? Remember Hollywood liberals and people like Al Gore preaching to the "little" people about how they used too much energy while they lived in mansions and were escorted in entourages of SUVs? The global warming movement has lost much of its steam since the economy tanked and since new media and thousands of scientists exposed much of the data, including the famous hockey stick graph "proving" global warming is real, was manipulated and in many cases, completely made up.

Now, the left and Hollywood have another energy target, another way to suppress the non-elite and another way to act like hypocrites. Actor Matt Damon has a new anti-fracking film coming in December called "The Promised Land." In it, Damon portrays fracking as an evil cow killing, family farm attacking, water damaging practice promoted by money hungry capitalists. The problem is, fracking doesn't do any of those things.

The other problem? The film was bank rolled by an Arab oil company from the wealthy country of Abu Dhabi.

Quark Soup by David Appell: Why the Melting Arctic Matters

just the melting sea ice is adding roughly 10% to the manmade greenhouse effect

BBC News - When the word 'saintly' can be made a state secret

So now we know that Monbiot was described as "saintly", even if we still don't know the intonation with which this epithet would have been uttered.

And perhaps we have learnt something else - that when government departments respond to information requests, sometimes extracts are redacted for unnecessary and rather peculiar reasons.