Thanks to nooneinparticular for pointing out an interesting news story reported in the Sydney Morning Herald:
Norway will invite US politicians to visit a group of fast-thawing Arctic islands in 2007, hoping to win converts for tougher action against global warming, its foreign minister says.
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Stoere said the Svalbard archipelago, 1,000km (620 miles) from the North Pole, where melting glaciers and thawing sea ice is disrupting the lives of people and animals such as polar bears, could be a showcase in 2007 for the effects of warming.
What struck me is that just today I was looking at temperature data from ECA for Svalbard, Norway! If the Norwegian government persuades American (and other) politicians to visit Svalbard, what will they see?
