[Enchante]

"A vast expanse of western Sibera is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warn today"

Well IF this is true then Kyoto and similar proposals are absurdly, risibly inadequate for the challenge we face anyway.... Greens will now want us all living as agrarian eco-freaks....abandon NOW all of our emissions of "greenhouse gases" and we might have a chance..... I think we need a lot more knowledge before we agree that all of modern society must be promptly dissolved and destroyed, and even that might not be enough to stop the accelerating warming trend, so let's all party until the end of the world..... :^)

[JustDoItAlways]

Here is a link to Siberia's historical temperature records, most go back to 1917.

http://www.john-daly.com/stations/stations.htm#Russia

This one for instance is in the heart of Siberia. There is no increase in temperatures at all.

http://www.john-daly.com/stations/dikson.gif

It continues to surprises me that all these studies get reported saying the temperatures have been increasing 3 Deg. C or something in the arctic when the actual measured records show nothing of the kind.