In the past week there has been a plethora of news articles sounding the alarm about global warming. Last week I pointed out how they were trying to pin it all on George W. Bush. This week they seem to be taking a different approach. (emphasis mine)

The area around the peninsula has shown an unusually strong warming trend over the past 50 years, although Atkinson said it's not clear how that is connected to the loss of sea ice. He also said the cause of the warming isn't known. -- CNN/AP, November 3rd.

The biggest survey to date of the Arctic climate, by 250 scientists, said the accelerating melt could be a foretaste of wider disruptions from a build-up of human emissions of heat-trapping gases in Earth's atmosphere. . .Arctic temperatures are rising at almost twice the global average and could leap 4-7 Celsius (7-13 Fahrenheit) by 2100. . .And the melting of glaciers is expected to raise world sea levels by about 10 cm (4 inches) by the end of the century. -- CNN/Reuters, November 8th.

The scientific overview, prepared by a team of 300 scientists from member nations, projects that temperatures in the Arctic will rise by 8 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit in the next 100 years. If temperatures then stayed stable, the Greenland icecap would melt altogether in 1,000 years and raise global sea levels by about 23 feet. -- MSNBC, November 4th.

It predicts that over the next 100 years, global warming could increase Arctic annual average temperatures 5 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit over land and by up to 13 degrees over water. Warmer temperatures could raise global sea levels by as much as 3 feet. -- Reuters, November 8th.

So, they cannot agree on how much warming has taken place, over what period, how much the sea levels will rise, or even how many scientists wrote the damned report, but we're supposed to believe this big catastrophe is about to occur. And none of these reports seems to account for the fact that solar output is at a 1000 year high. And don't forget that the environmental movement used to be about stopping Global Cooling.

It's funny, but the only thing scientists can agree on is that they need more funding.