If "when hell freezes over" means a firm "no," then "when the North Pole melts away" should mean "yes," yes? Am I mixing metaphors or something? Anyway, it seems that the North Pole is in danger of being bare of ice this year. Santa and his elves are reported to have moved to Hawaii.

 It's finally here! LucasArts and Day 1 Studios have released the World Exclusive trailer for their anticipated game Fracture (PS3, Xbox 360). We'll all get a better idea of what the story holds and what the action will look like. Check out the full article for the clip.

(Editor's Note: Hawtdayum, this summer's gonna be a scorcher - with or without global warming!)

Not only are we giving you a generous dose of news in this week's QuickJump QuickPeek... From MGS4 news and XBLA updates, all the way down to how Jack Thompson's finally gets overruled, we're serving up a more-than-generous scoop of industry news. Heck, our generosity's even spilled over to Comment of the Week!

While the talk on global warming is all the rage these days, one scientist says the phenomenon isn't to blame for everything. Tom Knutsen put together a study that leads him to believe that the rise in hurricane frequency is due to multi-decade weather patterns, not warmer seawater. More in the full article.

 We've known for a long time that smaller bodies of water like ponds and lakes absorb carbon. What we didn't know until recently was that they do the feat in dramatically faster ways than oceans and trees do. This discovery can have some good applications when you consider the kind of problems that the global community is facing today. Learn more about it in the full article up next.

Another alarming study regarding global warming has surfaced, revealing that tropical species are also in trouble. According to the UCLA and the University of Washington, warming can cause population of animals and insects in the tropics to decline, which adversely hurts the ecosystem. See the full article for details.

This week's goodies for your Blu-ray home entertainment system will have you cowering behind your bowls of popcorn. (Come to think of it, it'll be a good idea to watch these with a very very jittery girl friend or boy friend.) Curious? We've got The Orphanage, One Missed Call, Sublime, and Six Degrees Could Change the World lurking at the full article.

The director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies James Hansen had several choice words directed towards the fossil fuels industry regarding the critical state of our planet right now. His rather forward address expounds on how the industry was trying to cover up the extent of the global warming problem from the public and how badly their byproducts are affecting the environment. You can read more about Hansen's statement in our full article.

Sixty minutes of lights out in recognition of the fact that humans need to take action on climate change. This is the premise of Earth Hour. Perhaps you might have heard of it. If you live in Sydney, Australia, you'd definitely have heard of it since it was the first major city to turn its lights out. Earth Hour may be coming to your own town soon. More details in the full article.

Wise men have said that everything happens for a reason. Sometimes, that reason involves revealing something that would never have been revealed otherwise.

Take the case of the recent total lunar eclipse that took place last February 20. According to scientists, it offered them insight into another possible factor in global warming. More "aha" moments ensue after the jump.