The good news is that there has been a formal acceptence of the science surrounding "global climate change" by our government. Specificlly the Minester of the Interior. The bad news is that the sign of acceptence was to place the Polar Bear on the endangered species list do to shrinking sea ice and more importanly the Loss of over 400,000 square miles of the polar ice cap. The polar bear an iconic figure in the animal kingdom has seen it's numbers drasticlly reduced by starvation and drowning, While attempting to hunt seals that once were much closer to mianland, now they are forced to swim long distences(polar bears are excellent swimmers) in search of them. Their future will depend on the actions taken by you and me....I think their is little hope for them. It will be a mirror image of our own fate as the Ice cap dwindles and eventually dissappears. Many scientists now believe we will see it's disappereance by mid century!