What temperature and precipitation impacts will the summer meltback of the Arctic sea ice and the continuing deforestation of the Amazon rainforest have on Western North America's agriculture? (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
the National Academy of Science announcing it will launch an exhaustive multi-year research effort to determiine the impact of Arctic ice meltback on the temperature and precipitation patterns of Western North America (i.e. the world's grain basket). (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Despite this anomalous warmth in central Greenland, this clearly didn't cause meltback in Britich Columbia (link above) nor in the Alps: (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)