Peter, who keeps an eye on European developments for us, reports that certain omnivores in northern Spain, apparently having swallowed that whole global warming myth, no longer bother to hibernate.

Merry Christmas, everybody:

The change is affecting female bears with young cubs, which now find there are enough nuts, acorns, chestnuts and berries on the bleak mountainsides to make winter food-gathering sorties “energetically worthwhile,” scientists at the foundation, based in Santander, the Cantabrian capital, told El Pais newspaper.