Polar Bears In A Desperate Struggle To Find Ice | Real Science

These ice floes are only 5-15 miles wide and 2-4 metres thick. Can they support a full grown Polar Bear?
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Hudson Bay has been ice free for about a week. The entire Hudson Bay bear population will certainly go extinct, because bears can not survive without ice.

Cyclomania | Climate Etc.

So the bottom line is that I regard the issue of documenting, understanding, and predicting decadal and multidecadal climate variations associated with natural variability to be of paramount importance, not only in the climate change debate but also in decision making. The IPCC has been giving short shrift to this issue, although there are some signs that the IPCC AR5 is taking this more seriously. So at Climate Etc., we will continue to discuss the attribution issue and seek to explore the unknown unknowns associated with natural climate variation on decadal to multidecadal timescales.

Memo to climate change pundits: Don't mention the weather | MNN - Mother Nature Network

If it’s plug-dumb to use Inhofe’s igloo as Exhibit A in the case against climate change, it’s just as silly to think the general public will see this summer’s skyrocketing temperatures as an irrefutable case for its existence. Didn’t you just tell them weather wasn’t the same as climate?

It may well be – as a new report suggests – that the best way to mobilize public action on climate change is to not talk about climate at all. It might simply be too complex, too slow in coming, and too long-term in its impacts to serve as an effective motivational tool. I’ll come back to that debate in a later post.

For now, though, there’s one thing as clear as the bright blue sky above me on this unseasonably cool day here on the Canadian prairie at the end of a hot spell during a remarkably wet year: The weather will never tell a single story about climate change. For that reason alone, it’s a frame as unreliable as the long-term forecast. Climate activists and commentators need to abandon it entirely.