While planet earth has warmed only 0.6C on average over the last 150 or so years, warming in the artic has been more significant.
Clifford Kauss et al have written in the New York Times about new opportunities in the Artic as the ice melts:
It seems harsh to say that bad news for polar bears is good for Pat Broe. Mr. Broe, a Denver entrepreneur, is no more to blame than anyone else for a meltdown at the top of the world that threatens Arctic mammals and ancient traditions and lends credibility to dark-visions of global warming.
Still, the newest study of the Arctic ice cap - finding that it faded this summer to its smallest size ever recorded - is beginning to make Mr. Broe look like a visionary for buying this derelict Hudson Bay port from the Canadian government in 1997. Especially at the price he paid: about $7.
By Mr. Broe's calculations, Churchill could bring in as much as $100 million a year as a port on Arctic shipping lanes shorter by thousands of miles than routes to the south, and traffic would only increase as the retreat of ice in the region clears the way for a longer shipping season.
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Water vapour, also aqueous vapour, is the gas phase of water. On the Earth, water vapour is one state of the water cycle within the hydrosphere. Water vapour can be produced from the evaporation of liquid water or from the sublimation of ice. Under normal atmospheric conditions, water vapour is continuously evaporating and condensing. Normally, water vapour is invisible to the naked eye.
And I don't think I'm a greenie. Given I support a pro-AGW position and refute your silly position make me a greenie.
Phil - it would be salient to remember at this point that if Einstein spent a year explaining Special Relativity to a group of monkeys in the end they would still be monkeys.
I have been through all this many many times with Loius and it still comes back to the same.