Clint, no offense, but your comments are simply short sighted, have you ever heard of the saying ‘prevention is better than cure’.

Often Cancer could be prevented, by industry lowering emmisions and pollution, by good companies looking into what’s good for us to eat rather than what’s inexpensive and easy to package/sell, by motorists leaving thier cars at home and therefore lowering carbon emmissions which can be rather deadly and by humans as individuals looking after themselves much better.

My Gran died of cancer recently too, she was a smoker for most of her life, I’ve absolutely no doubt as to what killed her and it doesn’t take much expensive research to work that out.

Keeping the economy afloat and raising human living standards beyond a means they actually need is not going to be worth jack if the planet is reduced to a radioactive or heavilly polluted slag where our only option is to leave it or perish.

People are already dying, our influence on the environment is changing weather systems and causing drought, have you suddenly forgotten that Africa and most of Asia exist ??????

2. The Arctic ice did not recover this winter — it is much thinner and covers a smaller area. Freeze-up was many weeks later than normal and much of the Beaufort sea had big leads — open areas. Some new studies are coming out on this. Thinner is key here… meaning it will melt much faster this summer

3. The last time there was no ice in the Arctic was a million years ago — no polar bears them so I don’t know how you can say they will thrive. The entire Arctic region is changing, although most of the melting is in the west. Greenland is melting at a slower rate.

My article makes it clear that the Centre for Biological Diversity admits to using the threat to PBs as a way to get action on Climate Change. If you’re suggesting that CC is political you’re not up to speed on the science and clear evidence ie Arctic temps are up 6+degrees

1. The world’s polar bear population is not at all shrinking. It has more than doubled over the past century. Meaning; there are twice as many polar bears now compared to before this “global warming” began.

2. The sea ice that melted this last summer has more than replenished itself over this year’s colder than normal winter.

3. There are some polar bear habitats that have so much more sea ice this winter that there are colonies of bears that are starving. (See: Sisimiut, Greenland. Feb 2008). Polar bears are semi-aquatic marine mamals, and though they usaually don’t hunt while swimming, they have been known to swim over 100km to find suitable hunting conditions. They have thrived in warmer conditions in the past and they will again.

I’m so tired of people trying to use ecological justification to push a political agenda. You know full well that polar bear protection would be used mostly to push this AGW scam to make the left wing elite rich and doom the rest of us to economic doom. You’re one of a bunch of watermelons, (green on the outside but RED to the core). So, Mr. Pot. What is it that you were calling the kettle?