[extropy-chat] Climate skepticism patterns

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Spike:
> What is the value of a polar bear?
> Couldn't we just breed the Canadian grisly
> to be white?

Since oceans warm slower than land,
and since there is much more land
in the N pole than in the S pole,
we get different warming in each
pole (and different warming
'amplification' in each pole) .

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/01/polar-amplification/

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/05/more-on-the-arctic/

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/the-arctic-climate-impact-assessment/

So, artic bears can go south,
and do not scare on thin ice then
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,138346,00.html