Walt Meier says that the Arctic was ice-free in summer 5,000 years ago. According to our expert understanding, that means the bears went extinct across the Arctic.
Also, every summer the Hudson Bay is ice-free for several months, so we can say for certain that every summer the Hudson Bay bear population goes extinct.
ThinkProgress filed this report from Derry, New Hampshire.
It’s getting close to impossible to track Mitt Romney’s vacillating position on global warming. Appearing in Derry, New Hampshire, the Republican presidential candidate reversed last month’s stance on fighting greenhouse gases, telling a questioner that he didn’t think carbon emissions should be regulated as a pollutant
French weather hasn’t been newsworthy since August, 2003.
Snow-capped Alps not a worry, say Tour organisers
(AFP) – 4 hours ago
GAP, France — Tour de France officials said Tuesday they were “not worried” by snowfall high up in the Alps a day before the peloton tackles three days in the mountains.Some of the highest peaks in the Alps have been subject to snow in recent days, prompting fears that stages may have to be changed.
Race course director Jean-Francois Pescheux said organisers were keeping a close watch on weather conditions and would make “arrangements when and if necessary”.
Rough weather expected at Tour de France
This year’s Tour de France has been hampered by tough weather and numerous crashes, and more could be coming for today’s 16th stage.
GOP Denies Global Warming as Polar Bear Cubs Die in Melting Arctic Ice
Geoff York is a polar bear biologist working for the World Wildlife Fund’s Arctic Program. He has reported that polar bear cubs are being forced to swim longer distances due to their melting habitat in the Arctic, and the cubs are dying ultimately because of global warming effects.
York said, according to Reuters, “Climate change is pulling the sea ice out from under polar bears’ feet, forcing some to swim longer distances to find food and habitat.”
In the study York co-authored, they found that polar bear cubs who had to swim long distances due to lack of ice experienced a 45 percent mortality rate; cubs who did not had only an 18 percent mortality rate.
While physical evidence is obvious, instead of making an effort to do something about the detrimental effects that are occurring in our environment on earth, Republicans are denying it in even larger numbers. According to The Associated Press, in 2008, 50 percent of conservatives said they believed in the effects of global warming. But, in order to pander to the far right, many have changed their position on the issue. This year only 30 percent of conservatives say global warming has an effect on our world.
The bears can’t find any ice!
Don’t worry, be happy about the changing climate.
And don’t believe newspaper articles like this one – the mainstream media are not to be trusted because reporters have been “brainwashed” to believe the prevailing wisdom of climate science, which suggests climate change is real and caused by people.
Those were the messages Monday evening from Colorado State University emeritus atmospheric science professor William Gray and the “dean” of climate change skeptics, Fred Singer, an emeritus professor at the University of Virginia. Singer and Gray spoke to a sometimes unruly and tense audience in a packed CSU auditorium in attempts to convince them that most climate science is “hokum” and “bunk.”
Fear about climate change, Singer said, is a “psychosis” because global warming is natural and harmless.
Despite the fact that Hansen has been misquoted (on the high side) by almost every newspaper in the world a few dozen times over the last 30 years, I have yet to see a single retraction or correction anywhere on a Google news search.
Obama’s green jobs revolution
Democrat will lead effort to curb world’s dependence on oil; Plans to create five million new posts in clean energy projects
Sunday, 2 November 2008
Barack Obama is promising a $150bn “Apollo project” to bring jobs and energy security to the US through a new alternative energy economy, if his final push for votes brings victory in the presidential election on Tuesday.
“That’s going to be my number one priority when I get into office,” Mr Obama has said of his “green recovery” plans. Making his arguments in a radio address yesterday, the Democratic favourite promised: “If you give me your vote on Tuesday, we won’t just win this election. Together, we will change this country and change the world.
Weird. I thought golf and White House parties were his #1 priorities.
