Always Look on the Bright Side of Life Dept.: the Melting Arctic

Life imitates Monty Python in Northern Canada, where the Star tells us that residents of Churchill, Manitoba "are hoping that climate change will melt enough ice in Hudson Bay that their small grain port can become a major transportation hub." Currently about the only source of income there is running polar bear tours. "I know it sounds strange because melting sea ice could drive the polar bears away from here," Mike Spence, the longtime mayor of Churchill, told me when we had dinner later that evening. "But a lot of people also think that's going to happen anyway. So they see a yea...