It's freaking cold!
"Austria is today seeing its earliest snowfall in history with 30 to 40 centimetres already predicted in the mountains. Such dramatic falls in temperatures provide superficial evidence for those who doubt that the world is threatened by climate change.

It's not happening
"The data for global warming is unreliable and cannot be trusted."

Greenland is gaining ice
An international team of climatologists & oceanographers estimate Greenland’s interior ice sheet has grown 6cm per year in areas above 1 500m between 1992 and 2003. Lead author, Ola Johannessen says sheet growth is due to increased snowfall brought about by variability in regional atmospheric circulation or the so-called North Atlantic Oscillation (Source: Latest Scientific Studies Refute Fears of Greenland Melt).

Other planets are warming
"Evidence that CO2 is not the principle driver of warming on this planet is provided by the simultaneous warming of other planets and moons in our solar system, despite the fact that they obviously have no anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Mars, Triton, Pluto and Jupiter all show global warming, pointing to the Sun as the dominating influence in determining climate throughout the solar system.

PLEASE NOTE
All of the comments above are posted by the same person, Nolan Newberry.

ha. nolan newberry posts comments under different names on our blog too. ip trace shows nashville, tn. uses nolan.newberry810@topper.wku.edu to register.

I wonder how Western Kentucky University, "a leading American university with international reach," would feel about someone using their email system to not only post thoroughly discredited claims about climate change, but to do so frauduantly using multiple fake names. The former you might get away with under "academic freedom" (a.k.a. "you can't fix stupid"), but the latter is an ethics issue that must certainly be covered in their TOU or institutional bylaws.

On a different issue, I easily found a half dozen glaring typos reading through this article. Fifteen minutes of proofreading should have caught all of them. [An easy trick--read the article out loud before you hit 'send'.]

Great article. The accellerating death of species is a serious symptom of depleted ecosystems.
You could have been more accurate on the credits of the graphic. Correct credit is not NASA, but UNEP/GRID-Arendal. See: http://www.grida.no/publications/vg/africa/page/3102.aspx

When deniers and smoggers like Nolan run their errands for the big Arab- American oil companies and their propaganda industry, they keep on telling these stories about other planets and more snow. The facts are: the snow in Austria this winter is WEATHER. The average temperature, precipitation, wind and cloud cover over a period of 30 years is CLIMATE. The UN talks about climate, not weather.
The data on global warming are very reliable. Follow it e.g. on NOAA/NCDC http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/
and NASA http://climate.nasa.gov/

High altitude areas of some glaciers on Greenland and in the Antarctica of course gain thickness: global warming means more evaporation giving more precipitation. If temperatures rise from -30 to -10, the precipitation is still snow - the global warming makes more of it. It is the overall ice mass that counts and that decreases rapidly.

Of course planets may change average temperature over time. This is the Milankovich effect: varying proximity to the sun, varying polar axis. The same as earth has experienced over millions of years. Saturn is cooling at the same time as Mars is warming. This has nothing to do with manmade warming on earth.