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WaPo: Polar Bears ‘Hurt By Climate Change’ Could Develop A Taste For Human Flesh
dailycaller.com ^ | 7/14/2017

Posted on 07/14/2017 7:05:57 AM PDT by Helicondelta

“Polar bears hurt by climate change are more likely to turn to a new food source — humans” is the rather chilling headline WaPo went with in its article, published Thursday. The Post reported that with higher temperatures, “the more likely polar bears are to interact with humans — and possibly attack and eat them.”

WaPo relied on a recently-published study in the Wildlife Society Bulletin that looked at recorded polar bear attacks going back to 1870. The authors found “no trend” in the number of attacks by decade through 2014, which you’d think would count against the claim that bear attacks increase with less ice, but you thought wrong.

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To: Helicondelta

My favorite stat from the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) is that there were an estimated 21,000 - 25,000 bears in 2001, but the population estimate for 2015 is 22,000-31,000. IOW, the polar bear population is estimated to be INCREASING.


121 posted on 07/14/2017 9:25:23 AM PDT by NutsOnYew
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To: Vlad The Inhaler; ptsal; JBW1949; AFreeBird

I know perfectly well that Penguins seldom get further north than about Madagascar, and Polar Bears almost never venture south of San Diego. So they probably rarely end up in each other’s presence, much less assemble themselves into a food chain. I was just checking if folks out there were alert.


122 posted on 07/14/2017 9:27:25 AM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between Illinois and Venezuela, is that toilet tissue is still available in Illinois.)
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To: NutsOnYew

Well, sure, but are they happy?

And more importantly, are they voting Democrat?


123 posted on 07/14/2017 9:29:32 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: alloysteel
I know perfectly well that Penguins seldom get further north than about Madagascar, and Polar Bears almost never venture south of San Diego. So they probably rarely end up in each other’s presence

Maybe at the San Diego Zoo and Busch Gardens?


124 posted on 07/14/2017 9:40:34 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpers before Trumpin' was cool !)
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To: alloysteel
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The "alertness" level has been sharpened by years of witnessing the crimes and catastrophes thrust upon the USA and the world by the dimwitted Demoncrats and Control-LEFT media.

Smile it is Friday News Dump Day.

125 posted on 07/14/2017 9:41:05 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: dforest

They tend to favor warm liver.


126 posted on 07/14/2017 9:42:13 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

A penguin once climbed Mount Everest.

That penguin had a daughter and named her in honor of Sir Edmond Hillary.

Yep, old Sir is quite a gal.


127 posted on 07/14/2017 9:44:19 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: All

Thanks for the heads up, WaPo, but here in Canada we’ve sort of been aware of the dangers of meeting polar bears in the wild so we take along these devices called guns and ride on fast machines called snowmobiles.

You’d be surprised how few of us have ever been eaten by polar bears.

But grizzly bears, well that’s a different kettle of fish. They have trees they can hide behind while we get too close. That won’t be much of a problem in the Canadian arctic, the trees don’t grow much higher than a polar bear’s kneecap up there.


128 posted on 07/14/2017 9:55:13 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (The president is a good man -- that's why they are out to get him -- where have we seen this before?)
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To: Peter ODonnell

I went snowmobiling a couple of years ago.

We had four of them when I was a teenager.

They’ve changed a lot over the years.

It seems that they have ejection seats now.


129 posted on 07/14/2017 9:58:27 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Helicondelta

Bearware!

Swimming polar bears chase photographer in waters off Alaska
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/11200723/Swimming-polar-bears-chase-photographer-in-waters-off-Alaska.html

Polar Bear chases Photographer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L56KOpZ6vI4


130 posted on 07/14/2017 10:00:53 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: ptsal
See, I told you Polar Bears eat Penguins. I saw it on the Internet!

/s


131 posted on 07/14/2017 10:02:17 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: Helicondelta

Since I’m in southern Florida I’m not too worried about Polar Bears... but I understand that climate change might also make sharks evolve to grow legs and be able to run on dry land... that could be something to be concerned about!


132 posted on 07/14/2017 10:02:27 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: alloysteel

>>>You know the main food source of polar bears is the plentiful penguin<<<

You forgot the Sarc/ Tag. Apparently some here think you were being serious. LOL

Next time add the Polar Bears roasting a Penguin over the fire GIF.


133 posted on 07/14/2017 10:04:48 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Helicondelta

Uh oh, time to close the Polar Bear Gun Show Loophole.

Once they get Firearms, we’re cooked.


134 posted on 07/14/2017 10:06:14 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: All

Movie of the week. Polar bear army on drifting icebergs invade dc and eat the president..


135 posted on 07/14/2017 10:08:38 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Helicondelta
Perhaps this explains the expected increase in Polar Bear attacks on humans. That and the fact that all penguins have become 'snowbirds' and have gone south... permanently!

/s

Perhaps the Polar Bear lovers could move the bears to California to provide 'bio-remediation' of the sea lion & seal problem there?


136 posted on 07/14/2017 10:17:47 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: BwanaNdege

I love going down there and shouting,

“Look! A Killer Whale!”

And seeing all those heads pop up like a forest of periscopes.


137 posted on 07/14/2017 10:22:48 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Helicondelta
Dear Flesh eating Polar Bears: Before you eat me, eat liberals first, us Conservatives are Deplorable tasting...😀
138 posted on 07/14/2017 10:25:10 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Jamestown1630; joma89
We need the little ‘oh noes’ gif...

Plus the HL Menken quote:

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

139 posted on 07/14/2017 10:25:18 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: Obadiah

Drop off Algore and Michael Moore on an ice floe. See how the bears react. If the bears find them tasty then more research & testing (tasting?) is called for. DiCaprio, Clooney, Streisand, etc.


140 posted on 07/14/2017 10:30:50 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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