Polar bears could survive on persisting ice : Nature News

Some summer sea ice is likely to persist in the Arctic into the next century, providing a last refuge for polar bears, seals and other animals, researchers reported at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, California, this week.
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A paper published in Nature today brings more good news for Arctic ice. Steven Amstrup of the US Geological Survey in Anchorage, Alaska, and his colleagues looked at models of future sea ice circulation and found no evidence of a 'tipping point' of warming beyond which the ice will disappear irreversibly.

Polar bear could be saved if emissions are cut, says new study | Environment | The Guardian

Ice caps not likely to face rapid, irreversible melting as previously thought, researcher claims – meaning polar bears could survive

The Reference Frame: Joe Romm about Bjørn Lomborg's movie

But there are many other ways how the money is wasted in the business related to global warming. It turned out that Bjørn Lomborg's movie is one of them. It has earned about $62,000 so far (compare with $2,800,000,000 from Avatar) and is now earning about $200 every day. Someone is going to lose a lot of money. If they asked me in advance, I could have told them that I had expected the movie to be a failure. No one has asked me, however. ;-)

Now, people like Lomborg who have wasted lots of other people's money want to recommend us to make similar random investments - into research of technologies that satisfy additional bogus criteria, among other things. Do you really expect that such an investment may be sensible?

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Burton Richter (physics Nobelist) at #EI2010 We’ve excluded potential allies by focusing so exclusively on climate change.