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    Tom Petty - I'm part Native American like he his.

    Mike Campbell - His first guitar is from Okinawa, that is the country where I was born.

    Benmont Tench - We both play the piano.

    Ron Blair - We both love coffee and taking videos.

    Steve Ferrone - He once played drums for The Who, one of my very favorite rock and roll bands. We also love jazz music.

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    Warming Is Seen as Wiping Out Most Polar Bears

    bear600.jpg Alaska Image Library/United States Fish and Wildlife Service, via Bloomberg News. A polar bear on the Beaufort coast of Alaska. Federal scientists say Alaska could lose all its polar bears if summer sea ice shrinks.

    WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 — Two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will disappear by 2050, even under moderate projections for shrinking summer sea ice caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, government scientists reported on Friday.

    U.S. Geological Survey Report on Polar Bears and Climate Change

    The finding is part of a yearlong review of the effects of climate and ice changes on polar bears to help determine whether they should be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Scientists estimate the current polar bear population at 22,000.

    The report, which the released here, offers stark prospects for polar bears as the world grows warmer.

    The scientists concluded that, while the bears were not likely to be driven to extinction, they would be largely relegated to the Arctic archipelago of Canada and spots off the northern Greenland coast, where summer sea ice tends to persist even in warm summers like this one, a shrinking that could be enough to reduce the bear population by two-thirds.

    The bears would disappear entirely from Alaska, the study said.

    “As the sea ice goes, so goes the polar bear,” said Steven Amstrup, lead biologist for the survey team.

    The report was released as President Bush was in Australia meeting with Asian leaders to try to agree on a strategy to address . Mr. Bush will be host to major industrial nations in Washington this month to discuss the framework for a treaty on climate change.

    The plans to devote its general assembly in the fall to global warming.

    A spokeswoman for the White House declined to comment on the report, saying it was part of decision making at the , parent of the survey.

    In the report, the team said, “Sea ice conditions would have to be substantially better than even the most conservative computer simulations of warming and sea ice” to avoid the anticipated drop in bear population.

    In a conference call with reporters, the scientists also said the momentum to a warmer world with less Arctic sea ice — and fewer bears — would be largely unavoidable at least for decades, no matter what happened with emissions of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide.

    “Despite any mitigation of greenhouse gases, we’re going to see the same amount of energy in the system for 20, 30 or 40 years,” said Mark Myers, the survey director. “We would not expect to see any significant change in polar conditions regardless of mitigation.”

    In other words, even in the unlikely event that all the major economies were to agree to rapid and drastic reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases, the floating Arctic ice cap will continue to shrink at a rapid pace for the next 50 years, wiping out much of the bears’ habitat.

    The report makes no recommendation on listing the bears as a threatened species or taking any action to slow ice cap damage. Such decisions are up to another Interior Department agency, the , which enforces the Endangered Species Act. That decision is due in January, officials have said. The wildlife agency had to make a determination on the status of a threatened species because of a suit by environmental groups like and the .

    In some places, the bears have adapted to eating a wide range of food like snow geese and garbage. But the survey team said their fate was 84 percent linked to the extent of sea ice.

    Separate studies of trends in Arctic sea ice by academic and government teams have solidified a picture of shrinking area in summers for decades to come.

    A fresh analysis by scientists of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to be published Saturday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says sea-ice coverage of the Arctic Ocean will decline by more than 40 percent before the summer of 2050, compared with the average ice extent from 1979 to 1999.

    This summer the ice retreated much farther and faster than in any year since satellite tracking began in 1979, several Arctic research groups said.

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    Bryan Adams returns to the road this fall for a short spin on the tour circuit, with a couple of October dates alongside fellow veteran rocker George Thorogood on the schedule.

    The Canadian singer/songwriter kicks off an eight-city run Sept. 28 in Seattle. The two Thorogood shows come at the end of the outing, a pair of Northern California shows. All dates are included below.

    Adams, who is consistently voted one of the most popular entertainers in his home country, was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame last year, and celebrated his 25th year as a recording artist in 2005 with the release of "Anthology," his first double-CD retrospective. The singer also put out "Live in Lisbon," a concert DVD, which was filmed earlier that year.

    "Room Service," Adams' most recent studio album, was released in the US in the spring of 2005. It marked his first set of new music in almost seven years, with the exception of the 2002 film soundtrack for "Spirit," which Adams composed and performed in English and French. A single from the "Spirit" album, "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You," scored a Grammy award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture.

    Adams, who is also an accomplished photographer in addition to his music career, contributed an original song, "Never Let Go," to the soundtrack of the 2006 Ashton Kutcher/Kevin Costner vehicle "The Guardian."

    In July, Billboard.com reported that Adams had been working on a new studio album, which would be the 11th of his career, "for a couple of years now," but no release date has been reported as of yet.

    [Note: The following tour dates have been provided by artist and/or tour sources, who verify its accuracy as of the publication time of this story. Changes may occur before tickets go on sale. Check with official artist websites, ticketing sources and venues for late updates.]

    September 2007

    28 - Seattle, WA - WAMU Theater

    29 - Portland, OR - Rose Garden

    30 - Nampa, ID - Idaho Center

    October 2007

    2 - Pala, CA - Palomar Starlight Theater at Pala Casino

    3 - Phoenix, AZ - Dodge Theater

    4 - Universal City, CA - Gibson Amphitheater

    5 - Murphys, CA - Ironside Vineyard (w/ George Thorogood)

    6 - Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre (w/ George Thorogood)

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