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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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"Mommy, mommy, why do Republicans hate polar bears?"
1 posted on 02/18/2016 12:59:54 PM PST by PROCON
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Everyone knows that PBs do not die of disease or old age ... only by starvation at the hands of the vile deniers ...


2 posted on 02/18/2016 1:03:01 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PROCON
A little bio.........Environmental activist

Nuff said

3 posted on 02/18/2016 1:05:49 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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It doesn’t sound like an autopsy was performed; it could have been shot for all we know.


4 posted on 02/18/2016 1:06:49 PM PST by bubbacluck (America 180)
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Before climate change, polar bears were immortal.


5 posted on 02/18/2016 1:07:01 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: PROCON

Somebody has been playing the polar bear game.


6 posted on 02/18/2016 1:07:29 PM PST by sportutegrl
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To: PROCON

COD by a photographer. That’s good enough for me...


7 posted on 02/18/2016 1:07:45 PM PST by EEGator
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To: PIF

First Polar Bear to ever die. So sad. If only the climate wouldn’t change.


8 posted on 02/18/2016 1:08:34 PM PST by No Socialist
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To: PROCON
Paging Charles Darwin, line 2 please...

How about a damn autopsy?

9 posted on 02/18/2016 1:08:55 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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It looks like it exploded, must be Muslims.


10 posted on 02/18/2016 1:09:04 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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To: Night Hides Not

I don’t see a pillow over its’ head.


11 posted on 02/18/2016 1:09:19 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Moonman62
Before climate change, polar bears were immortal.

There can be only one.

12 posted on 02/18/2016 1:10:12 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Carl Grimes.)
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It doesn’t sound like an autopsy was performed; it could have been shot for all we know.

See all the feathers? The bear was found with a pillow over its face.

13 posted on 02/18/2016 1:10:21 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Why do we need an autopsy when we “know” it was man-made climate change that killed the poor little guy?


14 posted on 02/18/2016 1:11:49 PM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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What if it was just old or diseased?


15 posted on 02/18/2016 1:12:05 PM PST by EinNYC
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My very dead fur coats don't shed. Look at that picture. It sure looks like a setup. What's that fur all over the place hiding the true outline of the critter.

Starved to death....An excellent assumption by an environmental activist....for his new book.

16 posted on 02/18/2016 1:14:09 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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How do we know it didn’t FREEZE to death?


17 posted on 02/18/2016 1:14:27 PM PST by red-dawg (NO Prisoners.)
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If not for modern man Polar Bear would live for 1,000 years and we’d never see one die!


18 posted on 02/18/2016 1:16:21 PM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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It might have been a Democrat polar bear, starved to death waiting for free handouts.


19 posted on 02/18/2016 1:17:44 PM PST by baltimorepoet
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“The frozen remains of this young bear point to starvation.”

Hogwash. The guy’s a photographer, not a pathologist, so he has no clue what killed that bear.


20 posted on 02/18/2016 1:18:14 PM PST by Boogieman
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