The Arctic plays a critical role in maintaining a safe and stable global climate, with its reflective sea ice that sends significant incoming solar radiation safely back to space and its permanently frozen tundra that secures ancient stores of carbon dioxide and methane.
But the Arctic is warming at twice the global average, threatening to break what may be the weakest link in the chain of climate protection. The amplified Arctic warming is causing the reflective sea ice to melt, exposing darker water that absorbs more incoming solar radiation. It also is causing permafrost to thaw, releasing carbon dioxide and methane. Both processes are self-reinforcing feedback loops, in which initial warming feeds upon itself to cause still more warming. Feeding warming and making it stronger is not a strategy for success.
The recent UN Arctic report synthesizes…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Hey Jim,
What is it with CASH’s website and their apparent allergy to anything that could be remotely described as pejorative of nations, ethnic groups or individuals who abuse animals? The comments section of the posts about the porpoise in China and the zoo in Gaza have been scrubbed clean of all comments, comments that only an effete snowflake could possibly take offense at. The Politically Correct Police have apparently taken over CASH! As President of that organization you should be concerned. The planet is literally dying and the pearl-clutchers at CASH seem chiefly concerned about giving offense to some ethnic group or another or individual cretins wantonly abusing animals. They are apparently opting for the limp-wristed, Mr. Rogers approach to saving the planet. I remember CASH when it was founded by the energetic and outspoken Luke Dommer back in the 1970s or 80s. Maybe the current CASH leadership needs to reflect on just how much their organization has accomplished (or not!) in the last 30 years at suppressing sport hunting in this country by embracing the studiously-polite approach. If wildlife’s and Earth’s salvation is to depend on such an army of impotent hand-wringers as these, better to swallow a bullet now and avoid the future pain! None of this, of course, reflects adversely on you. You are the most logical choice in the country to head any organization dedicated to abolishing sport hunting. I’m just not sure that CASH, as presently constituted, merits someone of your anti-hunting credentials and stature.
Geoff
Thanks Geoff,
I’m not aware of any comment-scrubbing going on at the C.A.S. H. website, unless you’re talking about the old website, hosted by all.creatures.org. C.A.S.H. has recently created a new website: abolishsporthunting.org
I created the C.A.S.H. blog: committeetoabolishsporthunting.wordpress.com/ , but I’ve never scrubbed any comments from it. Can you give me some examples?
My mistake! The comments were posted at the Exposing the Big Game website in response to re-postings you had made from the CASH site. I regularly visit both sites as well as The Extinction Chronicles so it gets a little confusing. Nevertheless, I jumped the gun on CASH partly because in the distant past I know they had refused to post comments that were deemed a little too intemperate for their taste.
I’m very glad that you are now the President of CASH! You are a worthy successor to the likes of Luke Dommer and Cleveland Amory and seem to be the only published environmentalist not afraid to take on the sport hunters and tell them what lowlifes they actually are. Please keep up the great work, it is important to your readers and you are the most prominent wildlife enthusiast regularly doing it!
Thanks again Geoff,
I reblog to whichec\ver site I think would be interested in particular issues and it seems , unfortunately, that the comments made on one site don’t follow through to the next. Your comments are always welcome and a highliight on whatever they accompany.