I find it interesting that one of your links leads to this
journal of atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics
http://www.arm.ac.uk/preprints/433.pdf recent analys of monthly mean cloud data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatolgy Project uncovered a strong correlation between low clouds and the cosmic ray flux for extensive regions of the earth
in other words it sites non man made causes for much of the global warming.
these may or may not be political hacks, but these are still stories (for the most part) written by people how firmly believe in global warming, without giving the raw data from which they have take their opinions from. they are still telling people what to believe without giving them the data to make up their own minds.
another point is that while some glacers are retreating others arent. some are advancing.
another one is that changes will happen slow enough that they will likely not have that great effect on our way of life. Polution on the other hand can do some serious damage in only a single decade. yet with major hype about global warming going on, there is little being done to get rid of hydrocarbons in the air, and out of our water. with all the money spent on finding "solutions" to the "co2 problem", there is little left over to find solutions to the trash in our lakes and seas. With the blinding spotlight highlighting the hype over co2 destroying our way of life in the next half century, few can see how fast we are destroying it with ozone and such.
