Asteroid Dust May Help Combat Global Warming | Geoengineering | Space.com

To combat global warming, scientists in Scotland now suggest an out-of-this-world solution — a giant dust cloud in space, blasted off an asteroid, which would act like a sunshade for Earth.

Polar Bear Blog – The First Wave | Polar Bear Alley – Guide to the Polar Bears of Churchill

As for the general state of Churchill’s polar bears, there is an excellent write-up at www.polarbearscience.com questioning some of the recent polar bear studies/claims/hype. It really sums up well my concerns with what has happened to polar bear research in the last ten years.

This is a neat website as it kind of follows my own path through published papers and comes to many similar conclusions that I did – especially the idea that the Churchill polar bear population has a carrying capacity of around 1000 bears and that it is not in ‘freefall’ as is commonly portrayed. I like it – its not really a read for the ‘casual’ polar bear fan… more for the polar obsessed.

Melting icecap puts Europe’s woes in perspective - The Globe and Mail

Extreme weather has gone from rare to almost normal. Munich Re, the reinsurance giant, reports that weather-related disasters have tripled since 1980. The record heat wave in the United States in the early summer brought relentless drought and fire.

United Nations News Centre - Deputy UN chief highlights link between climate change and peace and security

Mr. Eliasson stressed that the only way to ensure energy, food and water security is to have a long-term strategy in place which allows countries to transition to sustainable, low-emission economies.