Scud, there's no freak'n global warming, actually the annual ice melt this year is the lowest in decades and has been trending that way for years. I don't know if 'the register' is blocked in china, but there's a current article on global not warming. So called 'global warming' has to do with warm/cold currents in the oceans and there location at any given time and is regional in nature. There's the long solar radiation cycle also.