This should remove all doubt as to whether the globe is warming up or not
I think its kind of scary.
http://www.comcast.net/news/science/index.jsp?cat=SCIENCE&fn=/2007/09/16/764582.html&cvqh=itn_northwestpassage

Arctic Ice Melt Opens Northwest Passage
By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Writer
4 hours ago

PARIS - Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level on record, new satellite images show, raising the possibility that the Northwest Passage that eluded famous explorers will become an open shipping lane.

The European Space Agency said nearly 200 satellite photos this month taken together showed an ice-free passage along northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland, and ice retreating to its lowest level since such images were first taken in 1978.

The waters are exposing unexplored resources, and vessels could trim thousands of miles from Europe to Asia by bypassing the Panama Canal. The seasonal ebb and flow of ice levels has already opened up a slim summer window for ships.

Global warming is a tragic reality. It just baffles me that people are able to condemn it with such an abundant amount of evidence, it actually makes me sick. This article just adds to the incontrovertible evidence supporting the presence of global warming on this planet. 

The issue isn't that global warming is occuring. It's if it's of a man-made origin. That's something science can't answer at this time.

Remember, these are the same scientists that were publishing books and horror scenerios in the 1970s about the impending mini Ice Age.

Actually, many scientists disagree on what is causing the warming. And I'm a hard science advocate (don't ever engage me on topics like anthropology classification and cosmology).

Secondly, there was much more printed and peer reviewed than one "short paper" and "media hype". Don't know about you, but I have enough photocopies from books of the 70s (I research arctic exploration), nevermind reading them then, that proves your idea wrong.

Thirdly, it has zero to do with politics (I wish it wouldn't even exist in science, as there's enough debate with competing theories).

 The favorite line of the detractors now is ,OK the world is warming but we don't know if it manmade or natural...
 What does that mean?? Does it mean theres a chance we didnt cause it so we wont try to stop putting the crap into the atmosphere that very likely is causeing it?
 The emmissions and gasses that we KNOW are bad for many many other reasons even if the world wasnt heating up.
 It will cost money thats thats the argument isn't it??  It will cost money to do the right thing... so we won't.

Statements like that are just deadly for your credibility. It's been about politics since IPCC was created in 1987 to assess politicians about Global Warming.

If ti was just abotu Science, there would be no noise, no films, no hype, no sectarianism. Science says GW is real and that man is playing a meaningful role in it and so man can undertake action to influence the evolution of the phenomenon. That's what Science says.

Then there's what is not Science, denialism of all kinds, most of it economically motivated but with a good bunch of politically motivated deniers. It's based on media hype, pseudoscience and non-peer-reviewed papers and op-eds, whcih are recast and spread across the Internet in such amount that it's hard to come by actual bona fide Science on the issue...

It will probably take a vast movement (or a major investment upon someone or some group) to have these things happen more productively, but I agree it's more possible to have positive changes with those three things becoming more available.

Sounds like you've seen one too many hollywood movies.

Long term, we are going to go extinct...perhaps the next incarnation of "intelligent" beings on this planet will do better fundamentally -- even this bs proves how flawed we are.