"Cuts in carbon dioxide pollution not enough, studies say" By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press | April 30, 2009
WASHINGTON - If the world is going to limit global warming to a few degrees, it has to slash carbon dioxide pollution much more than now being discussed, two new studies say. Carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels - coal, oil, and natural gas - is the chief cause of global warming....
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A) the sun has more to do with it than anything else, and B) the planet is cooling.
We just had a miserably cold April, and you bet I'm tired of the fart mist.
"Arctic nations plan soot crackdown" by Alister Doyle, Reuters | April 30, 2009
TROMSOE, Norway - Arctic nations agreed yesterday to crack down on soot that is darkening ice around the North Pole and hastening a thaw that they also blamed on global warming.
That glass of milk I spilled -- global warming.
The council said it was "deeply concerned" by melting and said human-induced climate change was one of the greatest challenges facing the Arctic. A thaw of the Arctic, where ice shrank in the summer of 2007 to its smallest surface on record, is disrupting livelihoods of indigenous peoples but may bring business opportunities such as for oil and gas exploration or trans-Arctic shipping....
Sigh.
"The Arctic ice cap grew by 30% from 2007 to 2008"
And what they hey, there may be BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES out of it all so HOW SERIOUS can the "crisis" be, huh?
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Pfffffffffttttt!!!!
