Rotting whale meat lures record 80 polar bears to Alaska village | Alaska Dispatch

She said that of all the bears observed, there were a few that looked skinny. But most appeared to be in “average” or better health.

How a hotter world could make us all less productive

In a 2010 PNAS paper, Solomon Hsiang studied countries in Central America and the Caribbean. He found that once the temperature gets up past 26°C (78°F), economic output in labor-intensive sectors of the economy starts falling. Specifically, output drops about 2.4 percent for every increase in degree Celsius.

[So we'll need at least another 23 degrees of warming before we'll allegedly get less productive in Minnesota?]

the average annual temperature of 45.4 at the Minneapolis St. Paul International airport is warmer than that of Rochester (43.4) and Mankato (44.7) which are both located farther to the south

Twitter / KHayhoe: 2 new [climate hoax?] positions available ...

2 new faculty positions available @TexasTech to support new Climate Science Center. Dept, rank flexible. More info: http://bit.ly/UEezbv

Are the U.S. and Europe headed for a trade war over airline carbon fees?

perhaps the E.U. will just back down altogether — recently, the Associated Press reported that European officials “may recommend the suspension of the continent’s carbon emission fees” to avert a bloody trade onslaught.

Fewest Forest Fires On Record | Real Science

There have been 47,437 forest fires this year. That is the smallest YTD total since the National Interagency Fire Center started tracking it in 2003. It is almost 25% below the mean and about one fourth of the 1938 total.