The Canadian Press: Report says global warming may force Canada to change approach to polar bears

Polar bear expert Andrew Derocher says the evidence that bears are changing their ways means scientists should reconsider the way they count them.

Derocher says bears are wandering between populations more than previously thought.

Inuit groups say they've maintained all along that the overall population of bears in Canada has remained stable.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » TSA nominee: Global warming deserves parity with war on terror

Try asking anyone traveling over the next few weeks whether they think AGW is as high a priority as keeping the next EunuchBomber from actually detonating something more than his own nuts, and see whether they agree with Southers.

Food costs to soar as big freeze deepens | UK news | The Observer

Farmers struggle to harvest supplies
Brown chairs urgent talks on crisis

Sub-zero spell to continue as grit supplies reach the end of the road | UK news | The Guardian

The chief executive of the Met Office, John Hirst, defended its seasonal forecasts, which suggested that this would be a mild winter, saying it was extremely difficult to predict the weather accurately in advance. "All of the UK's contingency planning and exercises work on our five-day forecasts, which are massively reliable," he said, adding that longer-term forecasting was improving all the time.

'This will be the warmest winter in living memory' – defiant Met Office staffer – Telegraph Blogs

It is slowly dawning on the public that our lives are controlled by charlatans and buffoons. Our MPs are thieves and now our climate “scientists” are exposed as propagandists working solely to shore up a predetermined, but now universally discredited, thesis. There is more than climate at stake here. Until recently, scientists enjoyed the kind of authority that formerly attached to clergymen; now they are distrusted. One by one, the pillars of society are collapsing into a heap of contemptible rubble, with anarchic consequences to follow.