Desperation: Robotic Twitter Bot spoofs “Climate Change Deniers” | Watts Up With That?

From Technology Review, a case of desperation. “Let the robot handle it”. I have to chuckle though, since the article cites John Cook’s “Skeptical Science” as an “appropriate scientific source”. Also amusing is “the rejoinders are culled from a university source whom Leck says he isn’t at liberty to divulge.” Well since he is in New South Wales, I’m thinking this just might be another Tim Lambert aka Deltoid production.

Canada environment minister resigns, to join CIBC - Yahoo! News

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice announced his resignation on Thursday, saying he will leave the high-profile government post for a senior position at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
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Prentice's resignation also comes after this week's Republican victories in U.S. midterm elections, which will likely stall any efforts by the White House to push through tighter climate change legislation.

Acid oceans and acid rain | The Rational Optimist…

Before I started looking into this, I assumed the evidence for damage from ocean acidification must be strong because that is what the media kept saying. I am amazed by what I have found. Make no mistake: there are lots of threats to the ecosystems of the ocean, from over-fishing to nutrient run-off, but acidification is way down the list. The attention is deflecting funds and action from greater threats. It is time scientists had the courage to admit this.

Are Polar Bears More than 'Threatened'? - NYTimes.com

As a longtime observer of a wide range of efforts to limit global warming, I see this as one of the least likely to succeed — and a bad match of tool and task — if the goal is, in fact, to limit warming, which would require global cuts in emissions.
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Coincidentally, newly published research on changing dietary habits of polar bears around the southern shores of Canada’s Hudson Bay reveals the species’ adaptability in the face of shifting climate patterns. The bears there have had to leave the sea ice behind, along with their normal diet of ringed seal pups, earlier in the year because of warming. But now they find themselves onshore just as vast flocks of snow geese are nesting, providing an abundant supply of eggs and birds.