Arctic Sea Ice at 12 Year High

Lucianne.com links to a Watts Up With That article reporting that in the high Arctic, near the end of the region's all-too-brief summer, the remaining sea ice is at a 12 year high. The article's title: "Doomsday Climate Predictions Meltdown." 

Extreme weather happens, it always has. The Dust Bowl was ugly weather that lasted a few years. 

Climate, on the other hand, does change but quite slowly and for reasons only partially understood. The various Ice Ages which lasted centuries were climate changes. To investigate climate change, begin with minor variations in the output of the sun and major volcanic activity on earth.