What Do You Do...

If you get your grant hoping to be the next big scare mongerer by showing the CATASTROPHIC consequences of ANTHROPOGENIC global warming, and by the time you're ready to publish your findings everything has moved out from under your feet?

Then you write articles like this one:

"Record low extents of Arctic sea ice in 2012 focused scientific and policy attention on climate changes in the high north, and to the implications of projected ice-free seasons in the Arctic within decades, the report says.

This opens opportunities for transport through the Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea Route, extraction of potential oil and gas resources, and expanded fishing and tourism, according to the report."

Then let the commentators take over.