Posted on 02/02/2007 9:50:11 AM PST by ml/nj
They cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice floe, their fragile grip the perfect symbol of the tragedy of global warming.
Captured on film by Canadian environmentalists, the pair of polar bears look stranded on chunks of broken ice.
Although the magnificent creatures are well adapted to the water, and can swim scores of miles to solid land, the distance is getting ever greater as the Arctic ice diminishes.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The funny thing about it is that it really indicates that there is global cooling going on. That is, if the distance that the bears have to swim is increasing, that means the icebergs are surviving a longer trip from the land they separated from. This can only be (assuming ocean currents remain the same) that the icebergs start out colder, they start out bigger, and/or the ocean is cooler. All three of these possibilites would indicate colder, not warmer, weather.
ML/NJ
Only the ones who cannot swim..........
Stupid bears.
Maybe a portent of The Super Bowl this Sunday............
The bears should move to Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, where this morning it was -17 and nothing was melting.
• These claims are overblown. A leading Canadian polar bear biologist wrote recently, “Climate change is having an effect on the west Hudson population of polar bears, but really, there is no need to panic. Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present.”21
21 Dr Mitchell Taylor, Dept. of the Environment, Government of Nunavut, in The Toronto Star, May 1, 2006.
Would like to see a wide shot photo to get an idea of how stranded this pair is. If the kids run out into the ocean and play and I take a photo in the right direction with nothing but water one would assume they are stranded in the middle of the ocean if I indicated such.
Bears can swim quite well, but that is not important. The important thing is that some of the bears are building their hibernation dens inland now instead of out on sea ice. Way to go, Yogi!
What a bunch of BS. Popar bears ALWAYS ride around on ice flows. It's how they hunt seal. I spent a lot of years working up north, and have observed how these bears hunt.
Ice flows have always varied from year to year. It's -44 today. It was -44 yesterday. It's going to stay that way all next week as well. That's 10 degrees BELOW normal. That's not global warming. This whole year has been colder than normal.
Every study has shown that the 20th century wended with a net GAIN in both area of arctic ice, and net GAIN in glacier area in Greenland. Studies
A pic of a bear riding on ice flows says NOTHING, except that most people haven't a clue about how these bears act in their enviroment, and are completely gullable towards the BS they are being sold by these eviro-nut activists.
Just because it's warmer than normal in California, doesn't mean it's warmer everywhere else.
Polar Bears go out on edge of ice to get away from annoying photographers who are standing on solid ground cropped out from right side of photo.
"Oh yes. How orgasmic!"
Just think of the power the Socialists would have if they could scare enough people into giving up all their rights to private industry. The government could finally be in charge of the worlds wealth.
Hillary wants to take oil profits and move them to a strategic oil fund. Ah yes. What the Socialists could do if they only had control of private industries.
Oh no! It's that guy again! LOL.
His jobs a goner.
Global warming hysteria is a form of madness and we need more straightjackets.
I was reading the story of the Diptheria epidemic that hit Nome, Alaska in the 1920's. The dogsledders were traveling in temperatures down to -60 without the windchill. These guys were all very experienced. One guy was afraid of going across a small bay like area, fearing that it might break off and float out to sea. At -60!!!
Hey, take him back. He's too white were a chocolate city. Can't you people get it right.
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