Retreat of sea ice fuels spike in seal deaths, study finds

Shrinking sea ice cover in the North Atlantic over the past three decades due to warming has led to a "dramatic" spike in deaths among seal pups, a new U.S. study says, offering a glimpse into a population issue while numbers are still abundant.

The study from Duke University in North Carolina warns climate change and disappearing sea ice off Canada's east coast could prove to be a more dire challenge for the animals going forward, with entire year-classes of seal pups dying as a result of diminished breeding spaces.

Schweppes Loses Australia Sales in Fizz Shortage With Coke on Edge: Retail - Bloomberg

Schweppes Australia, the nation’s second-largest soft-drink maker, which also has the Australian bottling rights to Pepsi
and Sunkist, said production is being hampered by a lack of carbon dioxide because of plant shutdowns by Orica Ltd. (ORI) and
Origin Energy Ltd. (ORG)

Susan Solomon on CO2

“We have to think about it [carbon dioxide] much more like nuclear waste than, like say, smog or acid rain,” explains one of the world’s top atmospheric scientists, Susan Solomon, Senior Scientist for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

Bill Maher Slams Republican Climate Change Skeptics - YouTube

[2009] On "Real Time" Bill Maher pilloried climate change skeptics, particularly skeptics in the Republican party, insisting that they must "stop pretending climate change is a future problem." Maher directed his criticism at Republicans such as Sen. James Inhofe, who has previously referred to global warming as the "greatest hoax," despite having no science background. [Maher suggests that there will be "hundreds of climate scientists assembled in Copenhagen" (Dec '09)]