Apparently, "the dramatic shrinkage, should it continue, may speed up the melting of Arctic permafrost by up to 3.5 times, potentially damaging the environment for plants, animals, and humans by releasing billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide and methane."

So we are looking at an ice free Arctic in five years time. And to add insult to injury the oceans are warming faster than expected.

So just as the crunch begins the Government's scheme to cut emissions by two percent with the watered down Emmisions Trading Scheme may provide solace to a liberal or two but allows local agribusiness to keep wrecking our planet. Meanwhile nutty, old, leftist-imposter Trotter has shown his true colours over the Greens attempting to take into account the view of the public in this debate.

And just in case your starting to think of resistance then consider the case of Kevin Tucker, pulled before a Grand Jury in Pennsylvania, possibly in connection with "domestic terrorism", including spraypainting in 2002 the slogans “ELF, in the protection of mother earth,” and “Stop Deforestation" on bulldozers destroying forests. Or consider the case of the UK Climate Justice movement where Monbiot (Climate change is not anarchy's football) and Ewa Jasiewicz (There can be no state solutions to climate change:) seem intent on tearing apart the movement in public because both are too proud to admit that both state and anti-state solutions will be necessary to halt climate chaos in the short-term.

However people can take heart as opposition mounts globally to continuing corporate plundering and as growing numbers mobilise to take increasingly more militant direct action at the point of pollution; at the Kingsnorth powerstation in the UK, in Iceland against heavy industry and more and more often come communiques like this from the US where Derrick Jensen-fuelled insurrectionary anarchists are cutting to the chase in an effort to incite a spiralling and escalating underground resistance in the heart of the beast. All that is left up to us is to join them.