Polar bears face melting chemical cocktail › News in Science (ABC Science)

Fieler is particularly concerned by a group of compounds used to harden the plastics, which mimic hormones.

"They change the hormone system of the animals so that some polar bears have actually turned from being female to male," he says.

The good news, according to Munro Jenssen, is that the polar bear has already demonstrated it can adapt to climate change.

"From 9000 to 6000 years ago, it was probably much warmer in the Arctic than it is today, and the polar bears survived that period."

ABC News Watch: ABC-polar bear whisperers

Can ABC explain how it knows that the Polar Bear in the photo is "waiting for an ice sheet to form"? and not say waiting for a meal? Placing this fanciful caption on a science article is demeaning to science. Please remove the mouse over caption.

Warmists and dinosaurs

[James Isanhart] World renowned scientific leaders including Freeman Dyson, Ivar Giaever (Nobel Prize), Robert Laughlin (Nobel Prize), Edward Teller, Frederick Seitz, Robert Jastrow and William Nierenberg have each come forward with their respective doubts about manmade global warming claims authored by the now discredited consensus of United Nations sponsored climatologists.

I for one do not believe we should institute a carbon tax of any kind at this time as the history of scientific consensus is not one to hang our whole economic future on.