Friday, October 16, 2009

Dire predictions for future of Arctic ice
A CAMBRIDGE scientist says the summer melting of Arctic sea ice is an "inevitable catastrophe" which will see polar bears become extinct.
All American Blogger » Polar Bears are a Prop, Not An Endangered Species
Indeed, since the 1970s — all while the world was warming – polar bear numbers increased dramatically from around 5,000 to as many as 25,000 today (higher than at anytime in the 20th century). And historically, polar bears have thrived in temperatures even warmer than at present – during the medieval warm period 1000 years ago and during the Holocene Climate Optimum between 5,000 and 9,000 years ago.
Think Progress » SuperFreakonomics [Allegedly] Gets Climate Change Super Freaking Wrong
SuperFreakonomics, the forthcoming sequel to the pop-economics bestseller Freakonomics by economists Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, devotes 44 pages to a contrarian view of climate change, calling global warming a “religion.”
[I hate it when that happens]: "Bad policy will boil the planet" | The Economist
Lessons from Britain about how to cut carbon, and how not to

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