Arctic ice at record low: NSIDC director Serreze: 'ice free summer by 2030/downward spiral'

The use of coal and petroleum is destroying the air, the water and the land. Coal and petroleum both come from strip mines now. The environmental damage from oil spills in waterways and acid leaching from mines is too great to calculate. It doesn't take a genius or graphs to look at the air major in cities and SEE the damage to the air.

Your constant blather about mundane trivia related to climate science is boring and pointless. Your "business as usual" advocacy in light of the immense damage happening as a daily occurrence due entirely to man made disasters is just too stupid for words. Even my dogs have the sense to get off of the railroad tracks when a train is approaching and it blows its whistle.

My dogs are smarter than you are.

Whatever. Polly want a cracker?

The indigenous people of this planet aren't doing it. The children dying of malnutrition in Somalia/Kenya aren't doing it. They don't deserve to die for our gluttony. But just out of curiosity, do you include yourself or those you love in that wish?

right on...choose love, not fear

So true... and it is all melding in with our ocean currents.

Got some growing next to my pineapple.

Rationalists may not need any more evidence, but then that follows that we would see some more action from them.

That used to work, or so I am told

Does Canada expect to cover the Polar Cap in Chinese Yuan when they get done drilling there?

I really question the Canadian government's commitment to enviromental issues. They are as addicted to oil as the US. I also have a concern with Alberta's tar sands. Which they want to pipe down to the States. How many pipeline breaks do you need before you realize that it is not environmentally safe? And why doesn't either country care?

Governments, Canada's no exception are looking to make a profit from this. They don't care about the damage done to the planet or to us. You've seen Russia planting their flag there and other countries Canada again included even increasing military presence. Greed blinds us to the true urgency of the consequences because they are more concerned about the $$$$$ and power sucking the Arctic dry will bring them even if it tips the climate scale and catapults the globe into catastrophe. In simple terms they need an intervention. Either that, or one day soon we may be reporting about the Arctic War.

It would be so much better for the planet, the economy and us to install a Solar Highway along the same route that the Keystone XL pipeline would run. I think that would be absolutely incredible. It would also create many "green" jobs, protect the environment and the Ogallala aquifer, protect crops against spills ( and the panels or even towers could be placed in such a way as to not effect their growth) and most definitely bring solar into parity. Oil companies have way too much power in this country and in Canada. And for me, I think you are a phony if you say we need to get off "foreign" oil, and then support piping it in from Canada. It's just a ploy to control the market yourself. We need to get off all fossil fuels and the only way we will do that before we truly get to the point of no return is to transition now. It is truly disappointing to think I lived in a country where supposed leaders had imagination and vision, only to see the same year after year after year even in the face of the facts of what our behavior is doing to change this face of this planet and to our own health.

I understand the pipe line follow T.Boone Pickens water rights holdings from Nebraska to Huston ,Texas
cooperation tax breaks and no jobs no money, The Bible Belt will become cannon fodder and will justify self fulfilling prophecy for the bible thump-ers of Wichita

Large amounts of violent energy as we are seeing