Brett this is too funny & whether a warmer or skeptic all can get a laugh. It supposedly checks out as real.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Giant_ice_penis_-_is_climate_change_to_blame?&in_article_id=304450&in_page_id=2&penis

If you look at the map, you can see that most of the retreat took place before 1950. Obviously it has nothing to do with CO2.

Just mention the word "glacier," and many alarmists brain's go into reverse.

There was actually a container ship carrying rubber ducks damaged by a Pacific gale, and they have been tracking the 30,000 rubber ducks that were swept overboard for years. Some got sucked up into the Arctic, froze into the ice, drifted across to Greenland, melted out, and were found on the shores of Scotland and Maine.

http://beachcombersalert.org/RubberDuckies.html

Rubber ducks are good if your budget is low, but I suspect the eco-freaks will have a thing or two to say about littering.

Well, it's about time they got down to some real hard nosed scientific experiments.

On the autumn note...

I thought that according to Gore, autumn was cancelled.

I believe those are called "rubber duckies" not "rubber ducks" - Thanks

Hmmm. They mention "global warming" in the title, but not in the article.

Hey Brett,
would be nice to have a picture of the duck!

Reply: They haven't found any yet. I didn't want to put up an imposter

Brett: Very funny we needed this.
I must say that the arctic used to be the size of the U.S.A, and is now the size west of the Mississippi. All of the infrared from the sun is going to be absorbed by the Arctic, creating what is called the feedback loop. So when they talk about the Arctic being in a cycle of death, these are not warnings but a certainty. The extra absorption of heat, will eventually melt the Arctic, in the summers in five years. More pollution from the oceanic region, as shipping lanes open, and fossil fuels go back up to the atmosphere creating more heat. Can You tell me why China, and not America, is selling ninety percent of solar panels, to our sleeping country.
Where are the great capitalists when we need them.
Taking profits to spend in Vegas. Time to wake up!

Brett,

You say welcome to fall, but I thought most meterologists use the meterological definition of seasons. I like them better personally anyway. (Reply: I wrote it at home as a regular guy who enjoys the fall season, that's all) That way, March is a spring month, June is a summer month, September is a fall month, and December is a winter month. That makes sense right?

Hey Kipp (and Brett) that last comment was WAAYYY out of line and offensive. (Reply: I just edited part of it out.) I have been watching you go back and forth and then spew stuff as fact that you have no idea about. Please shut up.

Kipp, the great capitalists are hard at work trying to get all the money away from you for their AGW agendas. You really do need to study up on Arctic temperatures and you will see why it will never ever be ice free. It gets extremely cold and stays that way for a long time. This is not rocket science Kipp. There are no coke bottles that you need to shake and see what happens. The sun is gone during winter in the Arctic. It just steadily gets colder and colder til the sun gets back up on the horizon.

Based on my measurements of the maximum glacial retreat in 51 year increments, I determined the following:

1851-1902: 15.77 km
1902-1953: 13.08 km
1953-2004: 17.31 km

The rate of the Jakobshavn glacial retreat has obviously increased in the most recent decades.

Dennis:

Since there is no evidence that CO2-induced warming has anything to do with that, or that CO2-induced warming is occurring at all, the glacial retreat doesn't mean much.

This whole "Arctic ice melt means we're causing global warming" nonsense is really getting old. Earth's climate and weather is much more complex than the AGW doomsayers acknowledge, and we have far too little information of far too low a quality level over far too short a time period to be pontificating about "climate change" or its causes.