Some reality creeps into a typical alarmist article

Alarmism from this article about Churchill:

...anxieties over unchecked global warming are ratcheting up to the point where a small nuclear war begins to have its attractions: it could cool things down about 2F as soot blocks out the sun. Failing that – or a huge carbon tax – we’re toast. Most of us, that is. For if climate change imperils the world at large, for a lucky few it’s the knock of opportunity.

Now some reality from people who actually live there:

...one might expect that leaders of Churchill’s tourist industry, which is built on wildlife, would be mobilising to protect it. But repeatedly they say the danger is overblown. “The numbers [of polar bears] are declining? According to whom?” says Paul Ratson of Nature First Tours. His chief complaint about the bears is that they’re being “drugged too much and handled too much. I’d like to see a moratorium on research”.

Asked if she feels that her livelihood is being threatened, Valerie Kelly of Great White Bear Tours says: “Gosh, no. If anything, tourism is increasing. I’m not sure if [climate change] is going to be that significant.” The fact is, after a long spell of scientists, journalists and other nervous nellies descending on them like crazed gulls, tour operators have developed a kind of bunker mentality against outsiders telling them what to think and what to do. In his Polar Bear Alley blog, Kelsey Eliasson speaks for many: “Climate change in the media, and even in science now, is too skewed for me to buy into any more. A lot of us feel that only the most alarming statistics are being circulated, and that if you do not simply agree that the ‘polar bears are in peril’ you [will] simply be dismissed as ‘having your head in the sand’. ‘The polar bears are starving’ is almost a local joke now.”

From the mentioned Polar Bear Alley blog:

Now, I am not really one way or the other on the climate change issue any more, I have read too much on the issue to believe either side. Its funny how I came to Churchill nine years ago as a rabid and misguided mosshugger and now find more in common with 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' than with 'An Inconvenient Truth'. Strange that I still consider myself an environmentalist, whatever that word means now.