As a graduate scientist myself, I rather believe scientists, not politicians, hence in my first sentence above I mentioned the IPCC report, written by scientists, based on peer reviewed research.

The petition you linked to above on the other hand allows anyone to download the petition and claim to be a scientist with a PhD. Its claims of signed up scientists are completely unverifiable.

read this : a 31000 scientist petition against the kyoto agreement!
http://www.petitionproject.org/

i think if people are going to go on about global warming we need to research it first much more! instead of taxing and proclaimg the end is ni!

sorry again for hijacking your good blog!

Also Say No To Lisbon! for a better Ireland for the irish!

thanks for the good wishes.

On the arctic ice, I tend to believe what I read from the IPCC and other reliable sources than individual blogs with obvious agendas.

From the
Wikipedia entry on Polar ice:

While the International Panel on Climate Change 2001 report predicted that the North polar ice cap would last to 2100 in spite of global warming caused by climate change, the dramatic reduction in the size of the ice cap during the northern summer of 2007 has led some scientists to estimate that there will be no ice at the North Pole by 2030 with devastating effects on the environment. [2]

Other scientists such as Wieslaw Maslowski, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, estimate that there will be no summer ice by as soon as 2013. He argues that this projection is already too conservative as his dataset did not include the minima of 2005 and 2007.

@Lee – I understand your concerns but I think you will find that this post and this one, for instance, shows that your concerns are unfounded.

keith

Enjoy it and congrats again! Wonderful news!!