Kyoto

Is it just me that finds it rather amusing that the scientists currently banging on about the Arctic ice shrinking far faster than it should be are Americans, and thus part of the nation that refuses to acknowledge that it needs to reduce it’s emissions of greenhouse gases and the like?

From the article…

“The melting and retreat trends are accelerating,” Ted Scambos, of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s National Snow and Ice Data Centre, said in a statement released by the university. The results have not yet been published in a scientific journal.
“The one common thread,” Scambos said, “is that Arctic temperatures over the ice, ocean and surrounding land have increased in recent decades.”
The scientists stopped short of directly blaming the melting trend on global warming but said they have few other explanations at this point.