Scientists studying the history of climate variations in Arctic regions have confirmed that the Northern Polar regions were much warmer than today. Over the last quarter-million years, the most significant arctic warming took place some 130,000 years in the past. The warming then had a much greater effect on the ice and vegetation than could happen now with the relatively small increase in global temperature.
Image: Two polar bears sparring on the arctic tundra in Canada.
This is the conclusion from From World Climate Report where an excellent analysis of the scientific report may be found:
Arctic Lessons from the Last Interglacial (Polar bears survived)
The next time that you see Al Gore’s photo collection of decaying glaciers and polar bears drowning as the distance between icebergs and the shore is too far to swim, think of the LIG as a natural period in Earth’s history when hippopotamus and the water tortoise were widespread as far north as Great Britain and birch forests reached the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Remember that then, as now, the Arctic naturally warmed more dramatically than the rest of the world, and also keep in mind that our modern global climate models – those that sit next to the panic button – are stumbling around that reality.
“The Sun is anything but a stable yellow ball in the sky” — That’s how the narration begins in the 
“America is on the verge of technological breakthroughs that will enable us to live our lives less dependent on oil. And these technologies will help us be better stewards of the environment, and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change.” 
I have long been a skeptic of the ‘global warming’ doomsday set, and the President seems to be caving in to the politically correct but scientifically questionable arguments in favor of man made ‘global climate change’ in his speech. The discussion of energy policy is best left in the realm of scientifically proven fact – and I wish he had made his argument on decreasing our energy consumption as a means to lessen our dependence on foreign oil, rather then framing the discussion by using unproven theories about the forces affecting the earth’s climate.
Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) is one of the few rational voices in the Senate when it comes to addressing the global warming issue. The Senator and his staff have established a weblog on the website of the Environmental and Public Works Committee where they don’t pull any punches when it comes to taking on the hype and misstatements by the Congress or the public in general. When Heidi Cullen, host of the Weather Channel’s weekly global warming program “The Climate Code” called for the American Meteorological Society to decertify any TV weatherperson who exhibits undue skepticism about climate warming, the Senator and his staff wasted no time in 
I had a chat with a colleague at work this morning about the recent 
NASA Scientists studying the relationship between the Sun’s magnetic activity and the peak number of sunspots, have discovered a six-year relationship between the two phenomena. If the trend continues as it has since 1868, we should experience a count of about 160 sunspots during the next solar cycle peak, due in 2011. 
For the first time since its