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Hearing tests for polar bears (Can't hear melting ice! Barf Alert!)
BBC News ^
| Sep. 30, 2008
| Peter Bowes
Posted on 09/30/2008 6:28:27 AM PDT by PROCON
Scientists in California are testing the hearing of polar bears to try to find out whether the noises associated with melting Arctic ice could affect their ability to survive.
In the wild, polar bears live in one of the quietest places on Earth. For much of the time, the Arctic is a bitterly cold, silent world.
But global warming is changing that. Ice, which is crucial to the bears' survival, is disappearing and people are moving in.
"We're expecting industrial activity, shipping, recreation, all of those human activities to increase in the Arctic," says Dr Ann Bowles, a senior research scientist at Hubbs-Seaworld Research Institute in San Diego.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; globalwarming; globalwarmingscare; polarbearscare; starkravingsocialism; thegreenmenace
You can't make this $h!t up!!
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posted on
09/30/2008 6:28:27 AM PDT
by
PROCON
To: xcamel; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
09/30/2008 6:29:03 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(No more politics, I promise!)
To: PROCON; enough_idiocy; rdl6989; IrishCatholic; Normandy; Delacon; According2RecentPollsAirIsGood; ..
To: PROCON
Is insanity a contagious disease?
To: PROCON
Let me guess. A $12 million dollar grant from the Department of the Interior?
To: PROCON
“Ice, which is crucial to the bears’ survival,”
It actually is the liquid water between the sheets of ice that are crucial. If the Arctic were all ice, no polar bears. If the Arctic were all water, they’d move to shore, like they apparently did in the Medieval Warm Period.
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posted on
09/30/2008 6:35:26 AM PDT
by
DBrow
To: PROCON
Somebody must have got a big grant by using the words "Global Warning" in the grant request.
But the good news is industrialization is coming to the North Pole.
What a load of .....
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posted on
09/30/2008 6:35:41 AM PDT
by
w1andsodidwe
(Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
To: PROCON
“We’re expecting industrial activity, shipping, recreation, all of those human activities to increase in the Arctic,”
Ummm, and this is bad?
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posted on
09/30/2008 6:36:22 AM PDT
by
DBrow
To: PROCON
But the scientists are trying to establish the animals' precise range of hearing.
The Stock Market is free-falling, people are losing their homes and you clowns are researching the hearing capabilities of Polar Bears. I bet the bears are chuckling at you too.
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posted on
09/30/2008 6:42:25 AM PDT
by
SouthDixie
(We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.)
To: PROCON
Polar Bears CAN and DO swim. UNDERWATER. They aren’t cats.
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posted on
09/30/2008 6:47:41 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Obama's a uniter?"I want you to argue with them (friends,neighbors,Republicans) & get in their face")
To: SouthDixie
The polar bears can’t hear the lifeguard blowing the whistle when they go for a swim less than 1 HOUR after eating.
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posted on
09/30/2008 6:49:00 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Obama's a uniter?"I want you to argue with them (friends,neighbors,Republicans) & get in their face")
To: PROCON
Maybe I can get a million $ grant on the effects of melting ice on the paws of the bears hmmm
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posted on
09/30/2008 7:15:45 AM PDT
by
bikerman
(_ _ . /_ _ _ /_ . . / / . . . . / . / . _ . . / . _ _ . / / . . _ / . . . //)
To: weegee
LOL. Our pool lifeguard blows the whistle for Adult Swim every hour. One thing is for certain, when that Adult Swim whistle blows, the arctic is empty of swimmers because there are sure no adults working on such a stupid study. Sounds like a high school science fair project.
To: PROCON
I have spoken to people who do research on polar bears, and have heard them talk of hearing tests on them. Never before have I heard them say it is because of global warming.
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posted on
09/30/2008 7:46:35 AM PDT
by
proud_yank
(Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
To: All
"Calling all bears...
Calling all bears...
How copy?...
Over"
To: PROCON
LET AL GORE TEST THEIR HEARING
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posted on
09/30/2008 9:47:48 AM PDT
by
RetSignman
(DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
To: PROCON
If the tests are being run the way that video shows, I can't see how they can tell what sounds the bear hears, looks to me like he has figured out that if he puts his nose to the plate and then barks, he'll get fed. These tests need to be done by using brain scanners and ear implants while running the bears through a range of tones from <500Hz to >20,000 Hz; not long ago a scientist did just that with young deer that he had raised and conducted the tests up to maturity. Remakably, he found that deer have terrible hearing and those stupid whistles that you see on people's bumpers are a big waste of money and time.
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posted on
09/30/2008 10:08:59 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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