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Polar Bear That Starved to Death, Allegedly Due to Climate Change, in Viral Photograph
theepochtimes.com ^ | Feb. 18, 2016 | Epoch Newsroom

Posted on 02/18/2016 12:59:54 PM PST by PROCON

A photographer captured an image of a polar bear in the Canadian Arctic that has gone viral.

Sebastian Copeland blamed climate change for the death--or more specifically, the melting sea ice in the area, which makes it harder for the polar bears to hunt. The picture shows a polar bear's emaciated corpse on a patch of rocky ground, which Copeland came across while trekking in the Arctic.

"For the state of the ice in general, we're headed into uncharted territory. There's no doubt about it," Copeland wrote accompanying the photograph in his new book "Arctica: The Vanishing North," reported the Daily Mail.

"The frozen remains of this young bear point to starvation. "The faster retreat of the sea ice, a bear's favoured spot for seal hunting, leads to longer fasting periods and the demise of more animals from starvation."

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: barebones; bearbones; climatechange; globalwarming; polarbear
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To: PROCON
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21 posted on 02/18/2016 1:18:52 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: sportutegrl
Somebody has been playing the polar bear game.

LOL!

22 posted on 02/18/2016 1:20:38 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: PIF

They also never get injuries or infections or killed in fights with other bears.


23 posted on 02/18/2016 1:26:42 PM PST by Marie (TRUMP TRUTH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw8c2Cq-vpg)
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To: Sacajaweau
My very dead fur coats don't shed. Look at that picture. It sure looks like a setup.

If the fur had been plucked out by birds or foxes, etc. while feeding on the corpse then it would have been scattered more randomly.

It's nice the way it all fits neatly within a 16:9 TV frame!

24 posted on 02/18/2016 1:27:13 PM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: PROCON

“favored spot for seal hunting.”

Look. Either the bear dies or a couple dozen seals die. Which will it be, enviros?


25 posted on 02/18/2016 1:27:29 PM PST by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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To: PROCON

How do we know the bear wasn’t anorexic?


26 posted on 02/18/2016 1:27:47 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: PROCON

geeez

i forgot

POLAR BEARS LIVE FOREVER


27 posted on 02/18/2016 1:27:57 PM PST by zzwhale
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To: PROCON

I’m no expert but it looks to me like he choked to death eating an oilfield worker.

Hard hats and steel toe boots have a tendency to get stuck in the throat.


28 posted on 02/18/2016 1:29:03 PM PST by IMR 4350
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To: PROCON

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3372014/Polar-bear-writhes-agony-blood-pouring-snout-fed-EXPLOSIVE-hidden-food-Russian-military-base.html.....Check that out. Ain’t from global warming.


29 posted on 02/18/2016 1:29:44 PM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: PROCON

It looks like it was hit by a meteor. POOOOOOOF!


30 posted on 02/18/2016 1:32:56 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: GreenHornet
How do we know the bear wasn’t anorexic?

How do we know he wasn't depressed from a case of "white guilt."? When I get a case of guilt from white privilege, I don't feel like doing a damn thing.

Maybe there was microaggression from seals teasing him.

The potential causes of death are endless, and "JOHN KERRY WAS NOT THERE TO SAVE HIM!!!"

31 posted on 02/18/2016 1:37:40 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: subterfuge
Look. Either the bear dies or a couple dozen seals die. Which will it be, enviros?

Neither, loser!

Sayyyyyy... you don't suppose that actually's what happened? The only fair way.

Nobody eats nobody and everybody starves.

The end.

32 posted on 02/18/2016 1:39:20 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: PROCON

Vegetarian: Indian word for a bad hunter.

Either this bear decided to become a vegetarian in a place where there are no plants, or something else, such as disease, killed it (shocking news: there are causes of death in the animal world besides global climate change).


33 posted on 02/18/2016 1:39:24 PM PST by Pollster1 ("A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless." - Scalia)
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To: PROCON

This guy’s pandering to the dumbest of the dumb:
Those with a certificate of attendance from a government school.


34 posted on 02/18/2016 1:43:41 PM PST by Original Lurker
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35 posted on 02/18/2016 1:43:49 PM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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To: PROCON
You know what to catch a Polar Bear?

Dig a big hole in the ice.

Place a bunch of peas around the hole.

When the Bear comes to take a pea, you kick him in the ice-hole.

(3rd grade humor, he-he)

37 posted on 02/18/2016 1:54:15 PM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: TexasCajun

What = How


38 posted on 02/18/2016 1:54:39 PM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: PROCON

A friend of mine that works on the N slope said the sound of a car door opening is to a polar bear as the sound of a can opener is to a dog.

FEEDING TIME!


39 posted on 02/18/2016 2:01:05 PM PST by IMR 4350
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To: dead
There can be only one.

Nice.

40 posted on 02/18/2016 2:04:15 PM PST by semimojo
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