[Nancy Pelosi: If we'd all take fossil-fueled trips to Alaska, we'd all understand the dangers of trace amounts of invisible, completely natural atmospheric gas?] - NYTimes.com

In conversation, she’s a runaway train. Talking about global warming in an interview last week, she warned: “You don’t want me to go into the melting of the polar cap and the glaciers and the great rivers of Southeast Asia and the water supply in Tibet and the encroachment of the Gobi Desert and the sandstorms in Beijing and the rise of sea level in all of our maritime areas in the world and. ... I would just recommend you go to Alaska to see what is happening.”

[Casual claim in the New York Times: Carbon dioxide is making polar bears swim to Iceland] - NYTimes.com

THE polar bear idea, for example, was not totally facetious. As a result of global warming, a handful of polar bears have swum to Iceland in recent years and been shot. Better, Mr. Gnarr said, to capture them and put them in the zoo.

Flashback: Polar Bear Shot in Iceland; Icy Spring May Have Led It There - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

The bigger story in the bear’s journey is that it may have been facilitated by the unusual abundance of pack ice between Greenland and Iceland this spring.