Would you like ice with that?

An area of the Arctic larger than the UK failed to freeze last winter. It could all be gone by 2030.

Just how much actually needs to change before the corporations decide to do something? Because whatever governments are doing isn't working so far. The carbon trading scheme looks like it is on the way to becoming another futures market for the wankers in the city to make lots of money out of. The US is actually increasing it drilling for oil in ... um... the Arctic, and China is planning to build 48 new airports over the next 5 years.

I suppose the smart money will be going into desalination and coastal defence technologies. Wish I had some.

At the species level I suppose I am still an optimist. The technology will follow the money and maybe we are heading for a technological singularity where all our existing science disappears over the event horizon. So long as the money chooses that rather than the quicker profits afforded by arming states to fight each other for what's left. Ouch. I wish I hadn't thought that.

Whatever happens a lot of people will die and many more will suffer. The rich will be alright (that's us) and some will bury their heads in the sand (that's the US)