There's a 50-50 chance that the North Pole will be
ice-free this summer, which would be a first in recorded history, a leading
ice scientist says.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...sn=001&sc=1000
Polar bears are not happy.
There was another interesting article in the SF Chronicle recently suggesting we are about to see the onset of a new Maunder Minimum. The Maunder Minimum refers to reduced solar activity that led to the "Little Ice Age" a few hundred years ago. We should be so lucky.