As Russia's Academy of Sciences declares: 'The Kyoto Protocol has no scientific foundation', , further evidence reveals that the polar regions are actually getting colder. Despite excitable, highly subjective and unscientific claims based on eye-witness accounts that these regions are melting into the sea, yet more studies confirm that this is not so.

A report in CO2 Science magazine says the Arctic and Antarctic have significantly cooled over the past several decades:

'Looking first at three coastal stations in southern and central Greenland that possess almost uninterrupted temperature records between 1950 and 2000, Chylek et al. discovered that "summer temperatures, which are most relevant to Greenland ice sheet melting rates, do not show any persistent increase during the last fifty years." In fact, working with the two stations with the longest records (both over a century in length), they determined that coastal Greenland's peak temperatures occurred between 1930 and 1940, and that the subsequent decrease in temperature was so substantial and sustained that current coastal temperatures "are about 1°C below their 1940 values." Furthermore, they note that "at the summit of the Greenland ice sheet the summer average temperature has decreased at the rate of 2.2°C per decade since the beginning of the measurements in 1987." Hence, as with the Arctic as a whole, Greenland has not experienced any net warming over the most dramatic period of atmospheric CO2 increase on record. In fact, it has cooled during this period … and cooled significantly.'

What's more, they say, Greenland did warm up significantly in the 1920s -- when there was no significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions. This suggests warming took place simply because Greenland -- like the rest of the world -- was emerging from the Little Ice Age. In other words, climate warming does not rely on carbon dioxide emissions -- as any real scientist knows. The article's authors conclude:

'...the study of Chylek et al. clearly demonstrates that the entire history of anthropogenic CO2 emissions since the inception of the Industrial Revolution has had no discernable impact on Greenland air temperatures, while the studies described in our Editorials of 10 Mar 2004 and 17 Mar 2004 demonstrate pretty much the same thing for the entire Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe. Hence, there is absolutely no substance to the climate-alarmist claim that earth's polar regions are providing evidence for an impending CO2-induced warming of any magnitude anywhere.'

Meanwhile, an article in the Christian Science Monitor reinforces these findings along with other research showing that the ice cap in Antarctica is getting thicker:

'Modelers also will be poring over results from studies of the west Antarctica Ice Sheet, conducted by Ian Joughin of CalTech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Slawek Tulaczyk at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Using satellite-borne radar and ice cores, the scientists calculate that the Ross ice streams are gaining ice, not losing it, as previous studies suggested. The new data, published in yesterday's edition of the journal Science, shift the region's crystalline balance sheet from losses of 20.9 billion tons of ice a year to gains averaging 26.8 billion tons a year.'

Stand by for the predictable shrieks of 'foul' from the green mankind-haters and their grant-guzzling acolytes in the global warming industry.