Posted on 01/11/2016 10:40:34 AM PST by rktman
Former Vice President Al Gore shocked Americans in "An Inconvenient Truth" when he said polar bears were drowning because global warming was melting Arctic sea ice, but now a new study shows that polar bears did just fine even when there was no ice covering the Arctic.
Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of Alaska, Fairbanks released a study claiming the "stratigraphic record of the last 1.5 (million years) indicates that no marine species' extinction events occurred despite major climate oscillations," including periods where the Arctic was completely ice-free in summertime.
"Some species thought to be dependent on summer sea ice (e.g., polar bears) survived through these periods," write Thomas Cronin of the USGS and Matthew Cronin of the University of Alaska in their new study.
"In the case of summer sea-ice-free interglacial periods, the presence of winter sea ice habitat, polar bears' ability to fast during summer, seals ability to use land areas in the absence of sea ice, and the availability of new prey species shifting ranges into the Arctic may have allowed survival during warm periods," Cronin and Cronin write.
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LOL!
I think that was the Aussie idiot professor that chartered a Russian icebreaker to follow the route an Australian explorer had done long ago when the Antarctic ice pack wasn’t an obstacle.
That would have been a story the media couldn’t ignore if they’d been attacked and eaten.
Well, if you are right, and it was Antarctica, they could not be eaten by polar bears, unfortunately.
The world would be a much, much better place of AGW scam artists were regularly eaten by polar bears.
Love it but (I’m sorry) had to report it... We don’t do the eff bomb here bro (or sis).
The huge flaw in the Warmist argument. The Warmists claim increased temps of just a few degrees will superheat the earth and wipe out life as we know it.
The record shows the earth WAS!!! several degrees warmer just about one thousand years ago. Why then wasn't all life wiped out by the increase in temps? The Warmists have no answer for that.
Driftless: “The Warmists claim increased temps of just a few degrees will superheat the earth and wipe out life as we know it.”
Obviously, you don’t quite “get it”.
Of course AGW will “wipe out” some life as we know it.
And since you and your SUV are legally responsible for all AGW, whenever there is SOMEBODY inconvenienced by the weather, you must pay to make them whole again.
Hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, floods, forest fires, income inequality, you name it: since your SUV life style “caused” it, you must pay.
Now do you “get it”?
/sarc
But, but, there are no bears in Antarctica
Ice Bear is sorry.
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