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Article II, Section 2, paragraph 2 of the United States Constitution states:

[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_and_consent

Meanwhile, in the fantasy world of Cancun :

Expectations are low that the United Nations’s upcoming two-week climate conference, which kicks off in Cancún, Mexico, this Monday, will produce a legally binding international agreement among the 194 nations in attendance. Nonetheless, negotiators, non-profit organizations and activists are flocking to the luxury resort in droves.

http://www.thenation.com/article/156698/gearing-canc%C3%BAn

What more needs to be said?

We have reached an irreversible tipping point death spiral loss of ice sheets catastrophe from which we can’t recover.

James Hansen, who heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, warns that if our “present overshoot” of the 350 ppm upper limit “is not brief, there is a possibility of seeding irreversible catastrophic effects.” According to a  2009 paper in Nature co-authored by 28 international climate scientists, these effects would include “the risk of irreversible climate change, such as the loss of major ice sheets, accelerated sea-level rise and abrupt shifts in forest and agricultural systems.”

It is likely that some of these feedbacks are already underway. The IPCC had originally projected the disappearance of the Arctic’s late summer sea ice by the end of the century. But this year, Mark Serreze, head of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center, reported: “The Arctic sea ice has reached its four lowest summer extents (area covered) in the last four years. I stand by my previous statements that the Arctic summer sea ice cover is in a death spiral. It’s not going to recover.” Scientists fear the summer sea ice could disappear within three years.

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/11/24/avoiding-catastrophe/

They started with this bold campaign two weeks ago.

http://www.latimes.com/la-na-climate-scientists-20101108,0,4825399.story

That quickly got demoted.

FOR THE RECORD:
Climate scientists: An article in the Nov. 8 Section A about a campaign by scientists to push back against congressional conservatives who have attacked the concept of global warming reported that the American Geophysical Union is mobilizing 700 scientists to provide information on climate change. The union is a nonpartisan scientific organization and is not a participant in the campaign —

Now the 700 scientists are down to John Cook

ROFLMAO

Mark Serreze commented that he thinks geoengineering the Arctic is a bad idea.

He seems to be in agreement with this assessment from 1975, when climatologists wanted to melt the Arctic ice cap to stop global cooling.

The Cooling World

Newsweek, April 28, 1975

They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve.

http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm

Saudi Arabia is expecting typical UK winter temperatures this week.

http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp9.html

London could see snow and temperatures that could drop to –2C this week, he added. Temperatures in most other areas will reach –3 or –4C, even in major cities, while in some rural areas they will drop to below –10C.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/28/snow-freeze-chaos-uk-weather

But can they put two and two together? I doubt it.

How often does that happen?

http://www.travelpod.com

It isn’t uncommon to have snow in the mountains, but it looks to me like widespread snow is forecast all the way to the southern coast.

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Some events, such as the 2003 European heat wave which killed about 35,000 people and this year’s heat wave in Moscow would be “extremely unlikely to happen in the absence of climate change,”

http://www.google.com/hostednews/

In other words, he is unaware of the heat wave of 1858 in London.

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“Geo-engineering is an absolute fool’s game,” said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, in an interview Tuesday from his office in Boulder, Colo. “This idea that you are going to stop global warming in its tracks by protecting the Arctic is not realistic.”

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/