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At today’s U.N. Climate Change Conference in Indonesia, China’s representative Su Wei said that there was absolutely no reason for China to do anything about its pollution, since they’re poor, have lots of people and need more time to economically develop before they bother with all of that silliness. Obviously, all the (pictured) smog in Beijing and stuff is the fault of those wacky prevailing winds blowing it over from California, but they’re not at all problematic for the health of their people, nosireebob, nothing to see here (and, there won’t be if they keep polluting like they are, but, hey, shhhh). [Yahoo News]

Knut the Polar Bear celebrated his first birthday today at the Berlin Zoo. They gave him a wooden candle, fruits and veggies to celebrate while they sold slices of cake to visitors. We were going to snark about needing polar bears to thrive in captivity so our children and grandchildren can see them after global warming destroys all their natural habitat, blah, blah, blah, but, really, we just needed to see something cute this afternoon. [Yahoo News]

Albert Gore Jr., winner of the Oscar, Emmy, Nobel and Vice President prizes, knows diddlyshit about journalism. In the above clip from this morning’s Today, Gore chastises the media for “the old habit of taking the ‘on-the-one-hand, on-the-other hand’ approach” when it comes to global warming. He supports this argument by noting that if you’re putting together a piece about the earth being round, you don’t try to find someone who thinks it’s flat just for balance’s sake.

That’s the most ethically reprehensible defense of poor journalism we’ve heard this entire week. Being objective is important, Albert, and this is somehow… racist. Al Gore is racist. No more awards for racist Al Gore.

Surely this solution will make a lot more sense to George W. Bush than “driving our cars less.” Who is Al Gore anyway? [Copyranter] MORE »

Does Dana Perino even believe herself anymore? At today’s White House press briefing, the comely mouthpiece was defending the Bush Administration against charges that they muzzled their own scientists’ global warming reports. She seemed to sense the prying eyes of satirical bloggers when she let loose with the following howler:

…this is an issue where I’m sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true that many people die from cold-related deaths every winter.

OMG, so true! Don’t be all defensive, Dana, we believe you! I bet totally, like, zillions of Eskimos die from the cold every day! It’s good that there’s no such thing as heat-related deaths!

Press Briefing by Dana Perino [whitehouse.gov] MORE »

A family of scientifically advanced, bipedal polar bears migrated from the North Pole yesterday to participate in an adorable dance-off outside of the Capitol. And by dance-off we mean, in the WP’s words, “demonstration intended to voice a broad list of complaints about global warming, war and sexism.” The savvy beasts joined a full-size Condoleezza Rice bobblehead doll and many well-wishing humans in a rally vaguely related to the “October rebellion.” That’s the one in which a bunch of anti-neo-liberal ‘bags attacked Georgetown last Friday, and where some chick got hit in the face with a brick.

Watch the cuddly bears dance and sing about the military-industrial complex, honey pots and so forth in the video above. After the jump, watch these same cuddly bears get arrested by stupid meanie cops!! MORE »

Condi Rice bravely demands that other countries stop using so much fossil fuel. [FoxNews]

This is the best use of the “some have argued” formulation we’ve read all month: MORE »

Canada’s prime minister today ordered a half-dozen naval ships to protect the melting Northwest Passage from the United States, which is plotting to seize the shipping routes and oil and fish supplies being revealed by the rapid Arctic melt. Wait, what? MORE »

Guess what just popped up in the Gulf of Mexico on the first day of Hurricane Season 2007. That’s right, a tropical storm named “Barry Hussein Obama.” And guess where it’s headed. MORE »