A BRIT has been mauled to death by a polar bear in Norway.
The victim was part of a group of around 80 on a British Schools Exploring Society trip.
Four others were seriously injured when the beast attacked early this morning as they camped on a remote glacier in the Arctic circle.
The BSES sends youths to Svalbard to investigate evidence of climate change.
It’s official. With two months of melting left to go in the season, scientists say there’s less sea ice in the Arctic in July than at any point in recorded history.
As previously reported, temperatures in the Arctic were as much as 14 degrees above average through parts of July, and now the National Snow and Ice Data Center has finalized its measurements of sea ice for the month. Not surprisingly, it’s another record in a long list of records for Arctic melting.
In 2007, the East Siberian Sea was in rapid retreat. Green shows 2011 ice not present in 2007, and red is the opposite. The red areas are shrinking, while the green areas are growing very fast.
It looks to me like DMI will have another flat to up slightly down day tomorrow, bringing it almost even with 2008, 2009 and 2010. (There was ice loss seen in the Canadian Archipelago which I missed the first time around.)
This seems impossible, because CO2 was too low to have that much moisture in the atmosphere. We all know that CO2 is a critical chemical component of H2O.
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THE carbon tax will inflate electricity prices by up to $200 a year more than Julia Gillard promised, demolishing claims her compensation package would ensure most people were hardly affected.
A NSW Treasury review into the carbon tax ordered by Premier Barry O’Farrell found electricity prices would go up by 15 per cent – not the 10 per cent predicted by the Prime Minister. That would mean an increase in a high-usage household of $498 a year, $300 for a medium-usage household and $183 for a low-usage household.
The report also found NSW would be the worst affected of any state by the tax, with 31,000 jobs to go and a hit to the state’s economy of nearly $4 billion in 2020, rising to $9 billion a year in 2030.
