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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Cantelo" data-source="post: 3175903" data-attributes="member: 2844"><p>Please, Litebeam, let's keep this courteous.  Given that a significant number of biologists, who know a good deal about Polar Bear population dynamics than either of us, are deeply concerned about their future such fears can hardly be written of as 'nonsense'.  You may be right that some predictions by what you call 'AGW alarmists' may not have turned out to have been accurate, but the same may be said, in spades, for some of the cheer leaders of the opposite camp.  First those unwilling to accept the world's climate was rapidly changing said it wasn't happening, then they claimed that, even if it was happening, it wasn't caused by a human agency and now the claim is even if it is happening and humans are responsible it somehow won't have a serious impact on wildlife.</p></blockquote><p></p>