Daily Kos: Myopic Bush Sheds no Tears as our Arctic Disappears

Daily Kos: Myopic Bush Sheds no Tears as our Arctic Disappears The Daily Kos has an interesting article by Tom Bell today on Climate Change and how Bush is ignoring it. This is scary stuff. Especially the following quote he uses: Alarmed by an accelerating loss of ice in the Arctic Ocean, scientists are striving to understand why the speedup is happening and what it means for humankind. If present trends continue, as seems likely, the sea surrounding the North Pole will be completely free of ice in the summertime within the lifetime of a child born today. The loss could point the way to radical changes in the Earth's climate and weather systems. Some researchers, such as Ron Lindsay, an Arctic scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle, fear that the polar region already may have passed a "tipping point" from which it can't recover in the foreseeable future. "Rapidly shrinking Arctic ice could spell trouble for the rest of the world" -- Knight Ridder 01/11/06 How on earth can anyone deny this is going on. In my own lifetime, I have seen a major change in our climate (near St. Louis). We used to have Winter. We used to have lots of snow and ice, and, while we still have some, we have no where near what we used to. I worry so much about what my small child will have to live through. What a world.