Bjørn Lomborg (http://www.lomborg.com/ http://www.lomborg.com/) has an interesting story on polar bears. Polar bears have been at the attention of the media af

Bjørn Lomborg (http://www.lomborg.com/ http://www.lomborg.com/) has an interesting story on polar bears. Polar bears have been at the attention of the media after a study that showed a 40% decline in polar bears due to melting ice caps that destroyed their natural habitat. There was even a picture of a lonely polar bear stuck on a piece of drifting ice in the middle of the artcic ocean with nowhere to go. Lots os environmental organisations picked up the story, and the heartbreaking picture, and ran with it. The polar bear has become the poster boy for the melting ice caps, and the global warming disaster. But when he dug into the story he found that the study was on a small group of ten polar bears, of which four had died. Two of the polar bears died because they were shot by hunters. I'm not arguing for or against global warming, just pointing out that you should look at the evidence and not at the media, which are appallingly bad at conveying the facts.