And polar bears are having to wait longer and longer before they can go out on the ice to hunt. In the meantime they scavenge village landfills and garbage cans.

In Alaska there is no doubt at all that there is severe warming already well along. How much of it is due to the world's policies is still not fully determined, of course. But wouldn't you agree, Doug - and others- that we should control or minimize or at least, address, the warming that we know that we are responsible for, that we already know the effects of?

Say that it is raining and has been raining for days. The ground is saturated, the streams are full. Then someone gets the bright idea of getting rid of our excess water because "the water is already running, what can be the harm?" and we start dipping water by the tanker load and dumping it by helicopter on the ground that is already being bombarded by the 'natural' forces.

No harm, right?