[aculeus]

They almost didn't mention Bush.

[SamAdams76]

But they made a nice recovery at the end.

[Simmy2.5]

Wouldn't this be a good thing for the people living in Siberia? Longer warmer weathers. Hmmmmm.

[narby]

Well, we'd better take those scrubbers off the coal plants so we can get back to the global cooling we had until 1970.

That soot does absorb sunlinght you know.

[Hardastarboard]

some of the world's worst air polluters, including the US and Australia

I live in an area where I've had to have my cars tested at least six times (I've actually lost count it's been so frequent) for emissions in the last three years. We have no manufacturing base. How the F))K can the US be one of the worst polluters?

I have an idea. We should capture all that methane and burn it, just like the green fascists demand. Cheap fuel, and we don't offend Mother Gaia. That ought to make the environazis happy, right?

[Texas Eagle]

Researchers who have recently returned from the region found that an area of perma-frost has started to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.

Since the LAST ice age???

You mean there's been more than one? And if it FORMED 11,000 years ago, what was it 11,001 years ago?

[RightWhale]

The causal effect is human activity

See? That is where they go wrong every time. They are grasping at threads. Even if it were human activity [subjunctive conditional] the proposed political solutions are way off base.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Siberian women and children hit hardest?

[359Henrie]

All that gas and I bet we cant drill for it.

[McGavin999]

WOW, look at all that good, fertile soil that is being exposed. Now trees will grow, they'll probably find massive amounts of oil. Just think, if under the permafrost in Russia and Alaska there are oil reserves bigger than the middle east, just think of how that will change things.

Besides, areas that get too hot can move to the new, warmer and more hospitable areas of Siberia.

[LRS]

Tony Juniper, director of Friends of the Earth...

Exidor, director of Friends of Venus...

[conservativecorner]

The only tipping point the writer can relate to is his tipping point with the hard stuff, if ya know what I mean. The enviro-fascists and liberal media are beating this to death with nothing other than wacky science. 30 years ago they said we were headed for global cooling, so I take everything these supposed experts say with a grain of salt.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"'If we don't take action very soon, we could unleash runaway global warming that will be beyond our control and it will lead to social, economic and environmental devastation worldwide,' he said. 'There's still time to take action, but not much.'"

And by "action" they mean: SEND MONEY! Now! Immediately! Hurry up will ya?!?

Send your signed, blank, drawn only on an AMERICAN bank, check to: PO Box 123, Global Warming Pass, Siberia, USSR-istan 02134

[datura]

70bn tonnes of methane, a quarter of all of the methane stored in the ground around the world.

Gazprom should get right on this - cap the tundra off and collect it all. After all, it's only NATURAL GAS. (Yes, the same NATURAL GAS that we PAY FOR!) The same NATURAL GAS that runs power plants.

And now the enviros are up in arms because they found some more of it. Too f_cking bad.

[Tarpon]

Anyone know what caused the ice age?

Trick question, you have been warned.

[Gerfang]

Don't worry. Nuclear winter will cancel out global warming.

[carlr]

"This is a big deal because you can't put the permafrost back once it's gone. The causal effect is human activity and it will ramp up temperatures even more than our emissions are doing."

It sounds to me as if they are hedging their bets.
Is it possible that they realize a natural ebb and flow of climate and temperatures can`t be blamed forever on humans(Americans specifically).
Maybe they figure that after a while with reduced emissions,hybrid cars,etc people will start to ask why the issue of global warming does`nt go away.
By the way I never hear about the hole in the ozone over Antarctica anymore.I think I heard that "the hole" had somewhat reduced in size.Please someone correct me if I am wrong as to this.

[SampleMan]

Create greenhouse gasses????? It will produce trees. Is the conversion of CO2 to Oxygen really going to end the world????

[SampleMan]

...you can't put the permafrost back once it's gone. "

Fascinating. If permafrost can't come back, then how was it orignially created???? Obviously these people are closet creationists.

[Arkie2]

I bet if we killed every cow in the world we could offset this problem!

[Ma3lst0rm]

It seems that mankind is returning the Siberian peatbog to its pre-ice age state. I thought restoring the environment to its original condition was a good thing? lmbo Global warming is a bug bear of those who need a mission in life. Hopefully the Siberian wasteland will once again become a thriving ecosystem. Who knows maybe we will all die from aspartame first. Ahhh how the perspective of fools is so tied to them having special knowlege with which they can save the world and mankind.