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Polar bears near shore as ice vanishes (Study Shows 239% Increase In Polar Bears)
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Posted on 01/10/2010 4:05:55 PM PST by icwhatudo
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Keep in mind these people were not just on land. They surveyed land, sea, and ice. Their observations showed an increase from 138 bears(79-87) to 468 bears (97-05)...an INCREASE of 238%.
Ice vanishing? Lets look at a comparison between Jan 10,1979 and Jan 10, 2010:
The "Beaufort Sea" is located the upper left area of both satellite images. To find exactly where it is, using the image on the left, follow a straight line from the zero on the chart on the left...moving to the right until you hit the water/ice. Just above that point (above the small green island) you will see a red/pinkish blob showing less of a concentration of sea ice. On the image on the right (from Jan 10 2010) there is no pinkish spot on the Beaufort Sea. The ice concentration is purple meaning a thicker concentration of sea ice.
If their contention is that there is more summer time ice melting, then they should say so, but this idea that somehow the area has seen its ice vanish is pure BS.
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:05:57 PM PST
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icwhatudo
To: icwhatudo; IrishCatholic; mmanager; enough_idiocy; FreedomPoster; carolinablonde; proud_yank; ...
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:12:04 PM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(Freedom from fat cat greedy Big Government tyranny IS a Right ... It IS the Constitution.)
To: icwhatudo
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:17:11 PM PST
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jimbo123
To: icwhatudo
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:17:19 PM PST
by
umgud
(I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
To: steelyourfaith
Polar bears love to eat seals. Seals love to float around on broken sections of sea ice to keep away from polar bears. Extensive sea ice forces the bears to risk life and limb to go eat seals hiding in and on the ice. Less ice forces the seals onto land into the ready grasp of the bears.
Obviously a loss of sea ice over several seasons should result in more bear cubs surviving because their mommies will have easier seal hunting ~ ergo the growth of polar bear numbers does reflect the loss of sea ice.
Return of a lengthy period of heavy sea ice should deplete polar bear numbers.
The Algore had it bass ackwards.
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:17:34 PM PST
by
muawiyah
("Git Out The Way")
To: icwhatudo
Maybe it's the body heat from all those extra polar bears that is causing the ice to melt. LOL!
Time for the envirowackos to give it a rest.
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:18:34 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Remember in November! Throw all of the bums out!)
To: icwhatudo
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:19:31 PM PST
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
I was just about to post that pic with the caption..
True that after the BBQ we gonna get some biatches...
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:20:29 PM PST
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GSP.FAN
(These are the times that try men's souls.)
To: umgud
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:22:07 PM PST
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: muawiyah
More likely they took the facts and twisted them. A little cherry picking words and pics.
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:23:34 PM PST
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freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: jimbo123
Jimbo, what’s the background to that pix? Interesting and hilarious, I think I can almost figure it out but would like to know for sure...
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:24:14 PM PST
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brushcop
(SFC Sallie, CPL Long, LTHarris, SSG Brown, PVT Simmons KIA OIF lll&V, they died for you, honor them)
To: GSP.FAN
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:24:58 PM PST
by
jimbo123
To: icwhatudo
There goes the neighborhood.
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:25:03 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
To: GSP.FAN
“According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.”
It’s all a LIE...er, actually, a SCAM!
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:25:24 PM PST
by
d2e
To: d2e
It is a scam and a lot people would be out of jobs,if ever revealed as such....
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:28:05 PM PST
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GSP.FAN
(These are the times that try men's souls.)
To: icwhatudo
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:34:25 PM PST
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Bon mots
To: jimbo123
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:34:45 PM PST
by
GSP.FAN
(These are the times that try men's souls.)
To: muawiyah
So polar bears eat only seals?
And their food was only on distant ice floes?
To: icwhatudo
But, but, this can’t be! EVERYONE knows that the decrease of ice means that the polar bear will DIE!!!!!
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posted on
01/10/2010 4:40:36 PM PST
by
irishtenor
(Beer. God's way of making sure the Irish don't take over the world.)
To: icwhatudo
Yeah, what a bunch of BS. The polar bear data is from 2005. That’s five freakin’ years ago! These AGW alarmists are grasping at anything to keep the myth alive!
Cheers
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