Anti-apartheid activist now heads Greenpeace

Some critics, such as Sun Media's Ezra Levant, have slammed Greenpeace for growing into a multimillion-dollar corporation with its own ships and hundreds of jet-setting employees.

Naidoo said Greenpeace's resources, based on donations of individuals from around the world, without any corporate or government funding, are a drop in the bucket when compared to what they are up against.

"If you look at what the fossil fuel (industry) is putting up in money to promote climate denialism to block climate legislation and so on, if you put it all together it's more than the combined GDP (Growth Domestic Product) of the 25 per cent poorest countries in the world," said Naidoo.

Anchorage Daily News : Excess Ice Is An Indication Of Melting Ice | Real Science

US needs to act as melting ice transforms Arctic

CASE IN POINT AT NOME : The security cost of the United States’ limited capability in the Arctic became clear this month. Officials in Nome needed a Russian tanker to deliver an emergency shipment of fuel when the city was blocked by sea ice

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Well Done, Marlo! - By Charles C. W. Cooke - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Ethanol subsidies, long opposed by most free marketeers, went quietly into the night — on Sunday, a sunset clause removed them from the tax code and Congress elected to stand by and watch.

2012 Arctic Ice Extent Heads Into New Territory | Real Science

Ice extent is more than 4000 Manhattans greater than any other recent years. Experts call this a death spiral.

Polar bear price increase | Heliogenic Climate Change

Every year, about 450 polar bears are killed and skinned in Canada — largely by Inuit hunters in Nunavut. ...Amid the threat of melting sea ice, Mr. [Andrew E.] Derocher [a biologist with the University of Alberta] said researchers rarely take issue with polar bear hunting. “I don’t know a polar bear scientist that hasn’t support subsistence harvests of polar bears — or even sport hunting of polar bears,” he said.”  “N.W.T. ups price paid for polar bear pelts to $1,750 as demand for the fur rises“