Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present.

[Al Gore] only supported the Internet by mistake. Read “Where Wizard[s] Stay Up Late” (a history of the Internet). Al Gore was recruited to help get congressional funding for communications infrastructure - which he did. However it is clear he thought he was supporting centralization not decentralization and certainly not distributed computing. Al was a mainframe guy. The World Wide Web is a Libertarian kind of idea. That’s hardly Al Gore’s native political stance.

Earth-centered-universe dogmas have been replaced by a far more intolerant Church of Gaia catechism of cataclysm.

Q: How many Carl Sagans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Billions and billions.

Discussing the consequences of clerical sexual abuse in Ireland, [Dawkins] suggests that ‘horrible as sexual abuse no doubt was, the damage was arguably less than the long-term psychological damage inflicted by bringing the child up Catholic in the first place’ (p317). These are statements of such unmitigated prejudice – and indeed absurdity – that it is shocking to find them in a serious book by a reputable author.

Scientists an endangered species

"There are not enough Indians down at the coalface to do the work," said one scientist, who requested anonymity.

Marajó [...] is the largest island to be completely surrounded by freshwater. Although its northeast coastline faces the Atlantic Ocean, the outflow from the Amazon is so great that the sea at the mouth is quite unbriny for some distance from shore.

more than 75% of the state has been “consumed”, and 13% of it “charred”

They must have outsourced all statistical work to Lancet.

Science, people believe, will find solutions to the problems that seem to preoccupy Greenies and other doomsayers. Well, I am a scientist, and I have to say I am more than somewhat sceptical about the ability of science to rescue humanity from its own folly.

War, Pestilence, and Famine, three of the horsemen of the apocalypse, can bring about a reduction in the human population. But these kill on a scale of tens of millions, which is not enough to solve the problem of over-population. And they are most brutal in the ways they kill. Consequently, let us consider the alternative.

The next most human way to reduce the population might be to put something in the water, a virus that would be specific to the human reproductive system and would make a substantial proportion of the population infertile. Perhaps a virus that would knock out the genes that produce certain hormones necessary for conception.

A triage approach will be necessary so that scarce medical resources go to those who can contribute most to the long-term viability of the planet. Consequently, many middle-aged-to-elderly people will die uncomfortable deaths. Not every problem is solveable.

His argument is something like trying to prevent another World War I by putting the youth of each country into trenches and having them shoot at each other.

Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares during four separate and sometimes over lapping time periods. From 1895 until the 1930's the media peddled a coming ice age.
Fromt he late 1920's until the 1960's they warned of global warming. Fromt he 1950's until the 1870's they warned us again of a coming ice age. This makes global warming the fourth estate's fourth attempt to promote opposing climate change fears during the last 100 years.

Today marks the official end of the 2006 hurricane season. The number of hurricanes was 38 percent below the number originally forecast by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The number of hurricanes that qualified as "major" - category 3 or above - fell 50 percent below NOAA forecasts. Not a single hurricane made landfall.