NC Media Watch: Global Warming and Alpine Closed Too Much Snow

Right now it looks like the Alpine Meadows could use some global warming to stay in business.

The IPCC Mythology (direct quotes) « NoFrakkingConsensus

Whenever you’re tempted to believe that journalists have been performing their duty to the public with insight and valour, this database will serve as an antidote.

Knut: 2006 – 2011

Unfortunately, Knut did not fare well in captivity. His chances surely would have been better if he had lived up in the Arctic (assuming no rejection by his mother), where the polar bear population has quadrupled over the last 50 years or so.

Biodiversity's ills not all down to climate change : Nature News

Climate change is affecting the world in many ways. But attempts to directly link local changes in species distribution and biodiversity to climate warming hold little promise, ecologists warn in Nature Climate Change1.