Leroy, particularly, will want to read this:http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/15/10415410-leaked-a-plan-to-teach-climate-change-skepticism-in-schools. As a sample, the introductory paragraph reads: “Internal documents have been leaked from the Heartland Institute, a Chicago nonprofit think tank, showing its funding of leading skeptics of global warming and a plan to teach climate change skepticism in schools. An anonymous person leaked the documents to several publications [...]

I have always cautioned those who believe that the world is getting warmer in general that it may be simply a shift in the magnetic orientation of our Nickel core as apparently we have seen several times in our world history.    Incidents like this and this more or less lend credence to the idea [...]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/science/earth/warming-arctic-permafrost-fuels-climate-change-worries.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=methane&st=cse A piece from the NYTimes about thawing permafrost in the landmasses of the arctic circle, (well the piece mainly talks about Alaska but I would guess it is also happening in places like Siberia). The thawing permafrost is releasing large amounts of methane, a potent and long lasting greenhouse gas, which may have a big effect on global [...]