[cogitator]

Holy galloping tundra, Batman!

[G Larry]

For my share of $100,000,000.00, I’d find evidence of any type of catastrophe you wanted me to study.

[bpjam]

If a scientist weren’t hopelessly biased in favor of the existing religion of global warming, they would look at this rapidly changing situation and think - there must be something causing this region (and JUST this region) to be deteriorating to quickly when on the opposite side of the globe Antarctica is growing faster than anytime seem by man.

And since the predictions for the Arctic region have been badly underestimated for warming, then there may be reasons OTHER than those currently attributed as the source of the change. But I’m sure its infinitely easier just to claim that the proof we predicted would happen in 2100 is happening in 2007 because they were just far, far, far more correct than even they could have predicted.

In any other science, when your predictions end up being off by a factor of 10X you are forced to change your theory. If a patients temperature went up to 105 degrees in 10 minutes instead of 10 hours, the doctor wouldn’t determine that his original diagnosis was right. He would look to find out what was causing the change which wasn’t possible based on his original diagnosis. But hey, medicine is an ‘art’ while climatology is a ‘science’.

[PeteB570]

I guess they weren’t near where the guy got stuck in the ice a few weeks back - or the Ruskies were delayed a few days planting that flag on the bottom of the Arctic Sea because of Unusually Thick Sea Ice.

[fanfan]

One of 44 Canadian research initiatives to receive a total of $100 million (IPY) research funding from the federal government,

What?

[Lizavetta]

One of 44 Canadian research initiatives to receive a total of $100 million (IPY) research funding from the federal government

Is there any doubt in anyone's mind why so many 'scientists' latch onto the global warming thing? They all want a federal tit to attach to. Deny global warming and you don't get no dough.

[muawiyah]

The reported condition is not abnormal for this particular island. It has, as it turns out, Grizzly Bears.

Means it's a lot less cold there than many other places that far North.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Comparing this summer's observations against aerial photos dating back to the 1950s, and the team's monitoring of the area for the past five years, the research leader calls the present conditions "unprecedented" in scope and activity.

Wow, they compared all the way back to the 1950s. That's practically the beginning of time!

Everyone knows that the only natural seasonal cycles are winter, spring, summer and fall. Anything else has to be Bush's fault. Bush and those damned SUVs.