[Global warming just one of many alleged impending catastrophes]

SYDNEY - Scientists have sounded the alarm bells over impending global catastrophe as existing governments and institutions are too powerless to head it off.

The world faces a compounding series of crises - from energy, food shortages, to climate change, to new diseases and increasing anti-biotic resistance - all driven by human activity, which is beyond the capacity of existing institutions to cope with, warns a group of eminent environmental scientists and economists.

Polar bears face extinction in less than 70 years because of global warming

Recent projections suggest polar bears could be extinct within 70 years, Eric Post, associate professor of biology at Penn State University, who led the latest study, told the Telegraph.

France: Doubt and anger over carbon tax

former Parti Socialiste presidential candidate Ségolène Royal described it as “ineffective, unjust and vicious” adding that people did not have the choice whether to drive or heat their house if there was no proper alternative.

Debate over funding for Lomborg

‘I don’t think we should be giving him money to declare that the government’s climate policy is foolish,’ said Vesselbo to Berlingske Tidende newspaper.