The Future of Polar Bears

At the AGU, the world's largest annual physical science conference, a diverse quartet of scientists set out this morning to launch a discussion about the future of polar bears, and the possibility of a refuge for them in northern Canada and Greenland, where ice experts think sea ice, which is crucial to the balance betweenContinue reading “The Future of Polar Bears”

Palin Takes Global Warming Advice from Exxon-paid “Scientists”

For years environmentalists have been pressuring the US Department of the Interior to list the polar bear as a species threatened by global warming, arguing that their habitat — specifically, polar ice — is at risk. There is no doubt that polar ice is shrinking dramatically, a fact the scientific consensus links to global warming:Continue reading “Palin Takes Global Warming Advice from Exxon-paid “Scientists””