The Reference Frame: RSS MSU: 0.013 deg C month-on-month cooling

The latter, newer version already contains the October 2008 figures. With its 0.181 °C anomaly, it was 0.013 °C cooler than September 2008 and 0.044 °C cooler than October 2007.

Their competition at UAH MSU - John Christy et al. - claim to be more accurate and have released their October 2008 data, too, indicating a tiny 0.006 °C warming: see Anthony Watts.

Jennifer Marohasy » Why Campaign Against Hunting Polar Bears?

The general media narrative is that polar bears are on the verge of extinction from melting Arctic ice as a consequence of global warming. So, the WWF may feel smug in condemning the people of Nunavut for continuing to hunt polar bears.

Indeed according to Bjorn Lomborg, in his second book ‘Cool It – the Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming’, we have a choice: we can save 49 [?] polar bears a year by banning hunting or 0.06 bears by subscribing to the Kyoto Protocol.

In reality not every polar bear needs to be saved.

Despite media headlines to the contrary, many of the 19 populations of polar bears in the Arctic are stable or increasing. There is a place for hunting within a quota system. The skin and meat is used by the local Inuit with polar bear skin trousers as popular as ever.