EDITORIAL: Global warming's toll.(Editorial)

Sep. 12--It's come to this in the ongoing measurements of the vast environmental damage caused by global warming. To deny the problem, or to otherwise resist efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, is more than defying the mounting evidence of statistics on the changing temperature of the earth.

Instead it's to declare the moral equivalent of war on the polar bear.

The U.S. Geological Survey says what's known as summer sea ice is disappearing in the Arctic Ocean at such a rate that two-thirds of the world's polar bear population will disappear by 2050.

Such is the prognosis even if the world's industrial nations somehow managed to reach …