Well ... that's ... that's evidence of Global Warming, that's what that is!
However, Mr. Legates says, the Assessment ignored data that undermine these claims.
Ofcourse they ignored it. How can you have junk science and push a political agenda if your going to try to include factual data?
I guess drinking Coca-Cola poses a bigger threat to polar bears than global warming..
Walt Disney single-handedly killed deer hunting with 'Bambi'.
Nice to know they've pinpointed the cause with scientific fact.
Eat more Klondikes. Support the right to arm bears.
Aside from a variety of seals, they eat fish, kelp, caribou, ducks, sea birds, the occasional beluga whale....
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Beluga whale? Holy moley! I'll bet that's quite a take-down!
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Also from the article:
Interestingly, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has also written on the threats posed to polar bears from global warming. But, their own data on polar bear populations contradict claims that rising air temperatures are causing a decline in polar bear populations.
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Hey, the WWF don't need no steenkin' facts! They just need to scream stuff like, "Save the polar bears!" and the environMENTALS will send them lots of $$$.
BTW, I recently got a fundraising letter from John McCain on behalf of the WWF regarding global warming. Boy, it's not too often that junk mail gives me a double barf reaction. Well, McPain and the WWF are well-suited for one another -- phony liars.
Yeah. Polar bears are NOT going extinct... they are just mating with Grizzly bears. ;)
His presence was reported to the Canadian Mounty who maintained order in the nearby Eskimo village. The polar bear was deemed a threat since it was living off the human foodstuffs and wasn't foraging for his own food. Eskimo children were considered the most threatened class. Since he was protected a request was sent to Quebec for permission to "take" the animal and approval was received. A lottery was held to see which Eskimo family would take the animal since the animals hide, meat and bones were valuable to the Eskimo.
In Canada the Polar Bear is still protected and when the ice age arrives they'l still be frolickin' and drinking Coke!
FYI Polar bears do not drink Coca Cola and are man eaters
I blame Bush...
AlGore disagrees and will have a great deal more to say about it.( He's running for President -- be still my beating heart.)
My understanding is that pollution is a much bigger threat to polar bears than global warming, specifically from mercury and other heavy metals. Since polar bears are an apex predator that subsist primarily on fish and fish eating mammals they get very high exposures to these metals in their diets and it may be affecting the survival rate of their cubs. Their populations don't seem to be in any eminent danger though, so it's no crisis but rather just something that deserves further study and observation.
"charismatic megafauna" -- meaning basically cute LARGE animals that people care about
Tell that to the monkey.
http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/bear-facts/
You need to get a better source than the newspaper. See above.