UN climate report riddled with errors on glaciers | SETH BORENSTEIN

Five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world's most authoritative report on global warming, forcing the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote it to apologize and promise to be more careful.
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Patrick Michaels, a global warming skeptic and scholar at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, called on the head of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, to resign, adding: "I'd like to know how such an absurd statement made it through the review process. It is obviously wrong."
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"What is happening now is comparable with the Titanic [which hit an iceberg] sinking more slowly than expected," de Boer said in his e-mail. "But that does not alter the inevitable consequences, unless rigorous action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is taken."

CONSENSUS WATCH – 1/19/2010: Because without Consensus, scientific conclusions would have to be based on something other than hearsay | GORE LIED

Look, these guys read it in a magazine somewhere. What more proof do you people need?

Let’s face it, “stuff someone read in a magazine somewhere,” has long served as an important source of information on which we have all grown to rely.

With global warming, Glacier National Park needs a new name soon

Take, for example, the ptarmigan - a small bird commonly referred to as the snow chicken. As the warming climate melts snow in Alaskan national parks, the ptarmigan’s white camouflage is rendered useless. The birds become sitting targets for predators - and they’re disappearing quickly.
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Climate-related change also threaten the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in Porter, Ind., the closest national park to Chicago, according to Brenda Waters, assistant chief of natural resources at the park.

“We’re concerned about migrating birds - their timing is probably going to be off. Maybe the insects they feed on aren’t on the same time now,” Waters said.

[Where's the evidence that ptarmigan are "disappearing quickly"?]

Ptarmigan are notorious for their here-today, gone-tomorrow populations, pulsing between superabundance and virtual absence in just a few years. The causes of the rapid population changes remain a mystery. Many people think that ptarmigan numbers fluctuate rhythmically, with peaks once every 9 or 10 years. Although there is good evidence for these cycles in Iceland, cycles are more legend than proven fact in Alaska. As with many other grouse, the population depends very heavily on each year’s production of chicks, since this year’s chicks will be next year’s breeding stock. Under these conditions, one or two years of poor reproduction or high winter losses can cause drastic declines in abundance. Conversely, one or two good years might result in more ptarmigan than you could shake a shotgun at.