Pre-Christmas melt? North Pole forecast to warm 50 degrees above normal Thursday

That's pretty impressive... especially since it's the middle of the "night". There's been no sun for the last couple of months, and there's still a couple of months until sunrise.

Climate changes. We have the history of that. Ice Age to Super tropical periods? Yep, had em all. Right now, if we look at the trends, we "appear" to be in a slow warming cycle globally. And yes, civilization probably has an impact on it but we don't know how to even measure that yet. Yes, bring greenhouse gases down, bring pollution down, bring carbon footprints down. All of these are measurable. The long term impacts are common sense IMHO. Why spew poisons into our environment? I am more concerned with that than I am climate change.

Climate will change, with or without us. The difference I believe is measurable in the single digit percentages: 100,000 years vs 99,000 years.

First, no one is disputing "climate change". The dispute is over the effect of man's activities on climate change. Second, "climate" is not a matter of one day, week, month, or year. Climate changes slowly over decades, centuries, and eons.