We don't need no stinkin' global warming...

while the entire scientific community (minus the "junk science" scientists, of course) and the rest of the human beings on the planet are coming to grips with the reality of global warming and the potential for catastrophic consequences, bushco resolutely buries its collective head in the sand and tackles really important matters like announcing a veto on stem cell research... what can you do except read something like this and weep...

A warming climate has heated much of Alaska's permafrost to temperatures just below freezing and drastic changes are expected in the coming decades as that layer of frozen soil thaws. [...] Vladimir Romanovsky, an associate professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute said the impact is already apparent. In Fairbanks a path has buckled into undulating waves, houses are slumping into thawed ground and stands of birch trees are toppling as dying forested areas melt into swamps.

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