Quoting meself, the dailykos has the original story which the video was closely follows.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/24/9788...s:-Keep-Calm-and-Carry-On

Beaufort Sea Ice Thickness:

2009 - 170 centimeters
2010 - 160 centimeters
2011 - 140 centimeters.

Yes, it is global cooling at it's finest. All that record snow though indicates there's lots more vapor to go around and for vapor one needs?... [10 points for the correct answer]

boy, I'm fast... 35 seconds of another day in my live.

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I have this now (see link below) as my wallpaper. It will make it feel warm and toasty on a cold and dark winters night just by looking at it on my 23"environmentally friendly Samsung XL2370 monitor

http://www.autumns.co.uk/solarconstant.jpg

It's a little aide-mémoire that the Sun is anything but constant

From the WikiLeaks one could derive that concern for planet is just a forked tongued message

Wikileaks cables show race to carve up Arctic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/9483790.stm

Those fossil fuels are mine, mine, mine! Certainly, who cares about that global wellbeing themometer up top of the Earth's axis.

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PS: GeraldRube, if you read this: Your beloved Virginia is considered a "collateral damage" region or as it is put: An Environmental Sacrifice Zone!

http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/mountaintop-r...sacrifice-zone-K8Ug2nDtvF

Will We Sacrifice Our Water for Gas?

http://www.iwla.org/index.php?ht=a/GetDocumentAction/i/4272

Things start to look better by the Day, In the USoA

Did we hear that old sun being conjured up again? Light/Rays from the sun takes about 8 minutes to reach us, and solar winds and other phenomena several days. Never the smallest of plausible explanation why for instance the sun has been slowing for the past 60 years, yet World Wide the ice is melting everywhere on an accelerated bases, sea based, land based and EVE has in fact indicated that the Extreme Ultraviolet component has declined by 6% over the past 12 years... Ultraviolet being the portion that can penetrate water up to some 200 meters. [And used to be largely kept out by a ''healthy'' Ozone layer up in the atmosphere, which humans helped destroy substantially]

EVE: Measuring the Sun's Hidden Variability

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/sdo_eve.html


Of course if we total the sum of the energy from the ol sun, we've known for longer that the Total Solar Irradiance [TSI] has been varying about 1.2 watts/Meter square from peak to bottom in the cycle. 1.2 Watts on 1366 Watts it outputs per square meter [the flat line up top in chart below]. That's just about enough to let a LED light up... sure enough 510 thousand billion LEDs, but still 1 LED per square meter. Could the energy that lights those LEDs warm the planet by any noticeable margin, and not escape to space before it gets a chance? Of course if you take a scope, Electrical Engineers know how to work them, and knob it to 250 multiplication, one get the green wiggle below, which shows that solar reduction since the fifties, kind of synchronous to the sunspots humans have been counting for centuries, more accurate today than say, 60-100 years and before... but we have 10Be deposits in the Earth's surface as X-reference, when the sun was more or less active, quite accurately in fact, as do to tree rings and many other lines of evidence.


One wonders what's up next as an excuse [same old same old] why we should not have to worry about what humans are doing in the present [Anthropocene], the Era of Human Caused Globe Changing Effects, and not for the better.

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PS: Let's not forget to regurgitate what has all been said before in this and the disappeared thread... about zero zilch new under... the sun! All the Ain't True has been debunked countless times. The Earth circles the Sun. Hypatia [of Alexandria] found that 1200 years before Galileo, but she too died by the hands of those who found that to be an Inconvenient Truth. All that science, and here we are in 2011 and some factions pushing very hard to "defund" research and environmental pollution control [what about those continental sized plastic floats in the Oceans?]. These persons can be real proud of themselves, yes they can! Recently 2 brothers tried to buy themselves into a University faculty [FSU] by ''donating'' 1.5/1.6 million USD. The university wisely refused to accept and sacrifice their academic independence. Some other Unis had no trouble so it says there, and it's printed on the internet :P

Sek you can print and claim as much as you like but like everything under the Sun it's meaningless

as the rain follows the drought and the spring follows the winter that is just the way it is

You can print your fearmongering nonsense about climate change in Scotland and every Scot would laugh you out of the room

This is why in Scotland they have the word dreich

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dreich
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dreich+(Old+Scots+origin)

Only in Scotland which is a glorious place that I have spent too little time in