The flat-earthers are up to their old tricks. They don't want to have a bar of climate change. They'll lose too much money on their fossil-fuel and mining shares.

It's funny how people who sniff money become brain-dead!

Michael, what are you doing in a nonpartisan organisation when you are so obviously partisan yourself.

Your regurgitation of the tired old phrases”, accelerating global warming”, the non existent “sea-level rise” and the non rise in sea levels “endanger many thousands of miles of coastline”, while “Glaciers moving more rapidly to the sea”.

More rapidly than what, Michael? More rapidly that the contortions of your fevered brain, perhaps.

Did you think to ask yourself what relevance any of this has, when it holds the unspoken implication that human emissions cause the warming?

There is no scientific basis for the assertion that human emissions have any measureable effect on global warming.

There is no basis for AGW, apart from the unscientific guess by the IPCC, that it is “very likely”.

The settled, peer reviewed science is that all warming is accounted for, from natural sources and there is no room for any assertion of AGW, despite billions being spent in the desperate efforts of the alarmists to come up with scientific proof.

So how about a nonpartisan input from you Michael, and stop sounding like a partisan alarmist.

When the toys of which you speak have collected about a hundred years of data, there may be something to be derived from it, as against your observations of the short term, straining for conclusions, the basis for which is not available

'After carbon dioxide, the substance most crucial in determining how climate change will play out...'. Hang on isn't the Sun the main driver of our climate? or does the author think we have all been conditioned by television to read nonsense as well as listen to it?
These satellites seem to be programmed with the same biases as the IPCC. They only every seem to measure shrinking or mass losses. From the language of the article you would think these satellites only operate in Summer time and/or are deemed to malfunction during Winter when ice is growing or expanding. It's a bit like how the IPCC handles dissenting scientists.
There's some interesting information here on satellites, but it's a shame the article is laced with alarmist drivel.

Leo Lane - beg to differ, Climate Central bills itself as a non-partisan organisation but it is obviously partisan.

Qanda and David G - fellas rather than sling quite unjustified abuse its time you back tracked. You do realise that a La Nina is on the way, quite a strong one too to judge by the pattern of sea surface temperatures, and that means temperatures are going to plunge.. the current El Nino, which encouraged UK Met Office and NASA forecasts that 2010 would be warmer than 1998 (warmest on record), is fading after a weak showing. Both those trends, in turn, fit with forecasts based on oceanic cycles and are further indication that temperatures around the turn of the century were at a peak, not a plateau. The IPCC forecasts already look bad, and they are going to look a lot worse in a year or two as the La Nina runs its course..
Perhaps you should cover your rear ends while you back track..

Lets remember the geniuses who predicted ice-free Arctic summers by 2013. Thanks fellas but don't call us, we'll call you.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7139797.stm

Ten year Arctic Ice comparison shows no significant change at all.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/05/31/wuwt-arctic-sea-ice-new-7/

Most Climate Scientists are sneaky enough to make outlandish claims about events which are timed to occur after they collect their pensions or are long dead so they can avoid the flying eggs or loss of prestige but apparently some haven't learned that tactic yet.

>>Cathy Zoi is the founding chief executive officer of the Alliance for Climate Protection. Zoi served as the Chief of Staff in the White House Office on Environmental Policy and as the assistant director general of the New South Wales EPA in Sydney, Australia; and as the founding chief executive officer of the New South Wales Sustainable Energy Development Authority<<

Al, who the hell sent her in our direction, God save us I never understood we were such a target. I believed it was home grown lunacy.