The following is an excerpt from a daily email I get from JunckScience.com:

"World Meteorological Organization Flunks History
JunkScience.com, December 18, 2007
 
The World Meteorological Organization says 2007 is shaping up to be the fifth-warmest year on record and that this past year has seen, what it calls, a number of remarkable global climatic events, including the record melting of the Arctic Sea ice, which opened the Canadian Northwest Passage for the first time in recorded history.
 
However, Roald Amundsen and a six-man crew sailed the Northwest Passage in 1905 in their 70' sloop Gjøa while Robert McClure proved the route in 1854, winning a £10,000 prize for finding the Passage. So many have done so that there is a 'typical' route and at least a half-dozen others."

It's about time.  I hope they're able to get some of the same actors to play characters that still existed in the Lord of The Rings trilogy.  For example, Elrond, Gollum, Galdalf and maybe even Bilbo.

Here is an open letter to the Secretary General of the UN and various heads of state.  It says that trying to prevent or stop climate change is ultimately futile and is a dangerous misalocation of resources that would be better used to help people and nations build wealth to be able to adapt to the inevitable climate changes that have affected humanity since we first became civilised.  It also states that the climate changes noted in the IPCC report that has been in the news lately fall within known normal ranges for climatic fluctuations and therfore are insufficient evidence of a climatic emergency.

It was signed by 100 prominent climate scientists, some of which were part of the IPCC group that wrote the report on which the summary that was in the news was based.