Newsmax.com - Berkeley Professor: Gore an Exaggerator; No Record of Iceless Polar Bears

A liberal, Prius-driving Berkeley professor says Al Gore is exaggerating global warming facts, coal is a good source for energy, Thomas Friedman is wrong about global warming and storms, and hybrid cars won't help save the environment.

Seriously.

Professor Richard A. Muller explains his hybrid ownership this way: "It doesn't help slow global warming. I just love the technology."

Named a MacArthur "genius" in 1982, Muller who teaches a highly popular course called Physics for Future Presidents, insists that the bulk of misinformation on climate change has been spread by scientifically uninformed folk: "deniers" on the one hand and "exaggerators" like Gore and Friedman on the other.

"Polar bear fate seen to depend on emissions cuts" | Top News | Reuters

Industrial soot, for instance, blackens the snow and makes it soak up more heat, accelerating the melt.

"Their warming effect in the Arctic is very large," [Jim] Hansen told a news conference. "Pollution in the Arctic contributes to the melting of the ice. Those climate-forcing mechanisms can be addressed more quickly than carbon dioxide."
...
About 700 polar bears are shot yearly in Canada, Alaska and on Greenland. Since 1973, hunting has been banned in the Svalbard archipelago off northernmost Norway.

Video - Global Warming, Inc