The bear necessities of climate change politics

'They cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice floe, their fragile grip the perfect symbol of the tragedy of global warming. Captured on film by Canadian environmentalists, the pair of polar bears look stranded on chunks of broken ice….'

That is how an article in Australia's Daily Telegraph, entitled 'A planet on the edge', chose to open a discussion of the latest climate report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (1).
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kevin:Most eloquently put. summarises most of my personal feelings..