...it surely means I do not know.  Too bad scientists haven't heard of Kansas.

But WTH,

didn't you know that global sea ice levels the same as 1979 is proof of global warming? :-)

The heck with the comparisons. The real question is: When does History begin? In 1979? The Summer of '08? Or does it begin now, January 2009?

The Alarmists need a way out, so look for History to have begun at 5 minutes past midnight, 1 January, 2009. If that's the case (and Libs get to define this, BTW, since the MSM won't report otherwise), then the short report is as follows:

"Never before has polar ice been so thin. Recent measurements show that that the ice thinness (750 meters) is unique in the world's history (since measurements began). We don't know what's going to happen next, but the situation is dire. Stop all cars. Ground all planes. And we are going to ask The One to put the nation on alternative (even/odd) breathing days. If you need to take breaths on your restricted day, you will be charged a Carbon Tax until we get this situation back under control".

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

I have it on good authority that Mother Nature voted for Obama. My guess is that Mother magically began healing herself starting on November 5th, 2008. A date that will live in infamy.

.... I see I should have put a "TM" on "globaloney" (/kidding). :-->

Alice in: Through the Looking Glass

Alice laughed. `There's no use trying,' she said: `one can't believe impossible things.'
`I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. `When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

"the thinner ice had less snow cover to insulate it from the bitterly cold air, and therefore grew much faster than expected"

Anyone, not even a scientist, knows that, during the Winters up North, if you have a cold Winter, with little snow, frost lines goes deeper.  Originally being from Massachusetts, I can remember a Winter there just like that, where waterlines, coming in from the street, were freezing in some neighborhoods because the frost-line had gone below 6 Feet, the normal depth of the lines coming in.  Just for the sake of conversation, waterlines in Alaska come in at 30 feet.

The problem we have is these "scientists" the press goes out to find, aren't climate scientists, for the most part, so they have little understanding of how this all works.  Snow is an insulator.

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.  

   Insulation is all about trapping air which is a very poor conductor of heat. Snow traps air and acts as an insulator.

  Ask any farmer in the midwest. They like snow covered cropland. It prevents the ground from getting too cold too deep and delaying spring planting.

  This is known science. The wind is what carries away heat. It strips away the insulating layer of air around an object. It is why man has built shelters and started wearing animal fur that changed to become the clothes we wear. 

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

with one large silver lining? 

With higher gasoline prices, people are driving less, and that generates less planet-warming carbon dioxide.  Combine that with the global economic downturn, and it could be that our economic loss is the planet's gain. . .

I could put that lead-in quote on any MSM newscast today, have a Couric-type tard read it -- add some background video of polar bears and smokestacks and wall street -- and "Obama Voters" would believe it -- and renew their hope in change.

The end result of Global Warming? I mean the movie "The Day after Tomorrow" told me so. I really did like the Snidely Whiplash character disguised as the VP Dick Cheney. The libs got both ends covered. If it warms up it is GW, if it cools down its GW. See win win with them all the time.

Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster