NBC: Global Warming to Blame for Deadly Polar Bear Attack | NewsBusters.org

On Monday's NBC Today, correspondent Martin Fletcher reported on a deadly polar bear attack in Norway and explained: "The attack began at dawn with a bear looking for food....it's believed that with global warming, food is scarce. A post-mortem showed this polar bear was 110 pounds underweight, with almost no fat reserves. It must have been starving."

Fletcher began the report by declaring: "And today in the Arctic Circle, one of the most beautiful and hostile places on the planet, it's warmer than usual. There isn't much food for the polar bears. So when a group of British youngsters on a wildlife adventure trip set up camp for the night they became bait for a bear."

Climate scientists learn how to speak to the rest of us | StarTribune.com

Global warming is political. Increasingly so, as former Gov. Tim Pawlenty made clear last week when he announced that he now believes that if global warming is underway it's due to natural causes.

That's why this week some 23 climate scientists from around the country are gathering at William Mitchell Law School in a week-long crash course on how to talk about science to non-scientists. But, as an indication of how politcal the national discussion around global warming has become, the conference organizers decided they couldn’t even talk about it.
They feared that later on politicians and anti-climate change groups might use it to make the case that the scientists who attended are “pro-climate change” instead of merely scientists who study it.
“As a lawyer, I don’t want them to be an advocate for one side or the other,” said Professor John Sonsteng of William Mitchell, who organized the conference. “I want them to justify their science.”

So Sonsteng instead built the course around something that is parallel: A 1972 cloud seeding experiment that went fatally wrong, causing a flood in Rapid City South Dakota that killed 238 people.
“We decided not to do climate change,” Sonsteng said. “We are doing climate engineering.”
The 23 scientists, some major names in climate research, will spend the week subjecting themselves to court room cross examinations, depositions, congressional hearings, and press conferences – all of it based on a 80-page fiction that Sonsteng and his colleagues created around the 1972 event.
“Who caused it? Was it nature’s way or was it due to cloud seeding that was negligent,” Sonsteng said.
It’s funded by a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation because scientists rarely have to discuss, explain or interpret their work outside the scientific arena.

Don’t mention the tax | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Once “everyone” wanted to “price carbon”. Now even the NSW Labor Opposition won’t wear it

The Blackboard » Lost and Found (Ice)

Those of you who read WUWT will be interested to learn that DMI seems to have found the ice they lost yesterday