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clipped from www.doonesbury.com

"Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however....The goal is the United Nations running the world....When you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you, and you seize power. That was Hitler's plan. His enemy: the Jew. Al Gore's enemy, the U.N.'s enemy: global warming." -- Glenn Beck, plugging his CNN special on global warming

clipped from www.ens-newswire.com

BOULDER, Colorado, April 30, 2007 (ENS) -
Arctic sea ice is melting much more quickly than projected by even the most advanced computer models, a new government funded study has found. Comparing actual ice observations with climate models, the scientists conclude that the Arctic could be seasonally free of sea ice as early as 2020.

Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center have demonstrated that the Arctic's ice cover is retreating more rapidly than estimated by any of the 18 computer models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in preparing its 2007 assessments.

clipped from www.cloudappreciationsociety.org

You can't look around when you're looking up,
so we've had a look around for you

Petition Against Contrails

It is not everyday that you’ll find The Cloud Appreciation Society petitioning for LESS clouds, but that is exactly what we have just done on a UK Government website.

We signed up to a petition urging the Prime Minister to take positive action to counter the increasing proliferation of aircraft condensation trails – the long man-made clouds that form behind high altitude planes.

There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that contrails result in increased levels of high cloud, which tend to trap in the sun’s heat, increasing surface temperatures in the regions they cover. Lower clouds have the opposite effect – of reflecting away much of the sun’s radiation. Indeed, the effect of all cloud types taken as a whole, seems to be a cooling one. The tendency of contrails to spread out and lead to increased levels of high, ‘cirriform’ clouds is in danger of distorting this effect.