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Denver Breaks Record For Snowfall On Christmas Day - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver

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Global warming may soon see Santa don shorts

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Antarctica's penguins threatened by global warming - Yahoo! India News

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'Polars bears on the brink? Don't you believe it' | the Daily Mail

The thing I'm taking away from global warming 'debates' in the news is that it isn't about the facts, it's about the headlines. So, with the current nasty weather in the Midwest, is it perhaps a surprise that I came across this little thing?

Trekker calls off Antarctic adventure | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/27/2007

Carmichael had set out on Nov. 28 with a partner to raise awareness of global warming and break the 45-day record for trekking without outside assistance set by a five-man Korean team in 2004. Two years later, Hannah McKeand of the United Kingdom made a solo, unassisted trek in 40 days.

Crews at the Antarctic trekker's outpost of Patriot Hills had been urging Carmichael to call it quits for days - well after a calf injury had ended the journey for his friend, trekking partner and professional tour operator Jason De Carteret of the United Kingdom.
"Everyone had decided the window had closed except me," Carmichael said yesterday from his coffee business in Philadelphia. "I had to learn to accept that over a period of 10 days."
What helped persuade him was the unrelenting snowfall, which he had not encountered on a 100-mile test trek he made during his first trip to Antarctica in 2004. Skiing through as much as two feet of snow - when he had expected to be crossing a slick ice-packed landscape - was far more physically punishing and calorie-consuming than planned.

And then there's this... Record_Lows_2001">Antarctic Sea Ice Cover Growing Thicker...

My prediction? 5 years, and we'll be facing an ice age again. And good ol' AlGore will be leading the charge towards making a buck off scaremongering.

J.