The UN says that global warming is melting the polar ice caps and threatens to swamp coastal regions

Climate change fight affordable, cut emissions to zero by 2100-UN

Without extra efforts to cut emissions, “warming by the end of the 21st century will bring high risks of severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts globally,” the IPCC said.

“Irreversible” could mean, for instance, a runaway melt of Greenland’s vast ice sheets that could swamp coastal regions

UPDATE 1-Climate change fight affordable, cut emissions to zero by 2100-UN | Reuters

Scientists said almost exactly the same thing in 1952, in almost exactly the same words.

POLAR ICE THAW INCREASING GLACIERS SAID TO BE MELTING

CLEVELAND, Feb. 16 (A.A.P.) Dr. William S. Carlson, an Arctic expert, said to-night that the Polar icecaps were melting at an astonishing and unexplained rate and were threatening to swamp seaports by raising the ocean levels.

18 Feb 1952 – POLAR ICE THAW INCREASING…

Anthony Watts’s post Meh, same old ‘gloom and doom’ from the IPCC over new climate report at WattsUpWithThat prompted this one.  I started to write a comment on that thread that began with, The IPCC is nothing more than a… and I went on from there, trying with some success to limit my word count. But I didn’t post it.  I figured it would make for a great topic of discussion all by itself, with everyone adding their own continuation to that preface.

So to start the ball rolling, here’s what I came up with.

 TimesMachine: July 2, 1931 – NYTimes.com

Kemper Project in Mississippi, the prize project of the energy bozos–thought to be perfect because they could burn pulverized coal and pump the CO2 into the ground, now is three hundred percent over original estimates at 6 plus billion. I am certainly not surprised.

IPCC scientists says the pause could last 30 years.  

So now the reuse is posssible with a new process.

A quick update for sea ice extent for day 299 of 2014