"Welcome to the twenty-first century, Governor Palin."

20th.

AotD: Out your-rethra, not mine.

> Arctic melt 20 years ahead of climate models

Those would be the climate models that are so accurate in their predictions that we must take drastic action, right?

From the article:

> At the time [2007], researchers including Mark Serreze of
> National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado claimed
> that the Arctic had reached a "tipping point" - a dramatic and
> irreversible slide towards ice-free conditions.

Ooh, a testable hypothesis. If the Arctic began a dramatic and irreversible slide towards ice-free conditions in 2007, then 2008 would see the Arctic ice shrink even more.

But it didn't. It grew. The facts on the ground contradict the idea that the Arctic reached a tipping point in 2007. Maybe the Arctic doesn't always believe the liberal media.

Why did the ice grow? Hmm. A bigger-than-expected ice loss in 2007 must be the effect of climate change. An anomaly that contradicts what global warming alarmists predict? Must be just weather:

> A positive interpretation says that the Arctic [in 2008]
> defied the apocalyptic prophecies by recovering slightly,
> thanks to a pattern of colder and windier weather.

Funny how warmer stuff = global warming, cooler stuff = weather.