And further to the previous entry, one of The Green Man's favourite animals, the Polar Bear, which faces a decidedly uncertain future because of the melting of the polar ice cap, has few friends in the US administration. The US Fish and Wildlife Service, it seems, have been unable to quantify the rate at which the polar cap is melting and, as such, cannot regard this species at vulnerable.

All right, I admit they are cute, and this undermines the previous post, but the "head-in-the-sand" approach to global warming by the US administration is both expected and extremely disappointing.

Without wishing to be anti-American, you guys are the major contributor to this phenonemon. Some spending on a world issue that was not a war would be extremely welcome.

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