by Will Jones, Daily Sceptic:

Shrinking islands, vanishing polar bears, collapsing coral reefs — the media loves a good climate scare story. There’s just one problem, says Bjorn Lomborg in the New York Post: all of these have turned out to be false. Here’s an excerpt.

At the start of this century, the polar bear was the emblem of climate apocalypse.

Protesters dressed as polar bears, while Al Gore’s hit 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth showed us a sad, animated polar bear floating away to its death.