Polar Bear Scientist Has “Integrity Issues” - By Charlie Cooke - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Ah, there is that word “political” again. It is interesting how, when the science doesn’t do what the politics wants, the two are suddenly protected by a wall of separation. But when the science provides what the politics wants, it is evidence of a symbiotic call to action, and justification for billions of dollars in federal funding. Calls to Keep The Government Out Of Science are shockingly selective, bringing to mind the “irregular verbs” of which Bernard was so fond in the satirical TV show, Yes Minister: ”I have an independent mind; you are an eccentric; he is round the twist.”

Back in the real world — where “integrity issues” are less euphemistically known as “naked lying” — it is worth noting that even the Obama administration, hardly known for its climate realism, considers reports of the polar bear’s extinction to have been premature.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper shows 'dramatic slow down of ice loss in southeast Greenland'

A paper published online yesterday in the Journal of Geophysical Research finds "the loss rate in southeast Greenland for the more recent period has become almost negligible, down from 109 ± 28 Gt/yr of just a few years ago. The rapid change in the nature of the regional ice mass in southeast and northwest Greenland, in the course of only several years, further reinforces the idea that the Greenland ice sheet mass balance is very vulnerable to regional climate conditions." Global warming allegedly due to greenhouse gases would not be expected to cause such regional interannual variability in Greenland ice loss, thus pointing to shifts in weather instead.