The Hunt for a Clear Picture of Polar Bears' Future - WSJ.com

Nearly everyone agrees that there are more polar bears now than when scientists first started counting: Estimates put the population between 20,000 and 25,000, up from several thousand 50 years ago. In Canada, where two-thirds of the world's bears live, most populations have grown during the past two or three decades. Arctic residents say they are now bumping into bears wherever they turn.

"A month ago I was down by my [hunting] camp and I saw five polar bears," says Harry Flaherty, chairman of the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, who lives in Iqaluit. "They were so fat, they could barely move."

Climate deal possible, says Brown

“I’ve got an idea about how we can actually move this forward over the next few months and I’ll be working on this,” Mr Brown told the BBC, when asked what came next after the UN climate talks in Copenhagen.

“I think it’s not impossible that the groundwork that was done at Copenhagen could lead to what you might call a global agreement that everybody is happy to stand by,” Mr Brown said.

British firms slash airfares to Kenya

A number of key British holiday companies and airlines that fly regularly to Nairobi and Mombasa have slashed their new year prices in a bid to attract new customers.

C3: Did Global Warming Cause An Increase High Wind Storms As Predicted By Models? Peer-Research Says No

As every climate model, every climate alarmist and every single tax-crazed, revenue-loving politician has claimed, global warming would cause increases in severe weather, including a greater frequency of high wind storms. Unfortunately for the global warming "is-a-catastrophe" group-idiocy, they were wrong again, which has been well documented in the past.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Only A Company Living Off of Government Pork Would Make This Decision

High land prices? Hugely expensive land use and environmental regulations? High taxes? Really high local wages? Perfect, lets build an auto assembly plant!

Rapid City lawmaker: Schools should teach both sides of global-warming

Schools in South Dakota should teach both sides of the global-warming debate, Republican state Rep. Don Kopp of Rapid City says.

Pachauri: it's all a terrible conspiracy – Telegraph Blogs

He is telling us all this because we need to be vigilant against the dark forces of denialism and scepticism which, like the Orcish hordes of Mordor, threaten in the coming year to trample all over The Shire and its peaceful, honest, vegetarian community of scientists, green activists, nurturing technocrats, and sweet, gentle, life-affirming carbon traders.

Al Fin: It's Gonna Be Cold Outside, Campers

...we are at the start of an EVEN sun-spot cycle (number 24) which are generally colder than odd cycles even when there are lots of sunspots. Other factors also come into play – such as lunar effects; but CO2 is not one of them. The theory of man-made CO2 driven Global Warming & climate change is failed sciencebased on fraudulent data and it has no forecasting power or value”, he said.“This winter marks the end of any credibility in the theory of man-made CO2 driven Climate Change of global warming zealots; and the beginning of continuing general decline in world temperatures which will stay below recent levels for at least 100 years (6). Honest greens who want to defend nature’s bounteousness had best bail out now or they will get dragged down with the fraudsters.