Thin Polar Bears Called Sign of Global Warming

Environmental News Service ^ | 05/16/2002

[mikrofon]

Thinner-Than-Normal Contestants Called Sign of Global Warming

[Digger]

For all of the doom & gloom I suggest that the tree huggers & peta people just have a "Jim Jones" koolaid party & end it for them. It's just toooo much stress on them.

[VRWC_minion]

Were talking 18 years a few bears and no alternatives considered like the body fat changes with the severity of winters, family traits, type of food eaten etc. How do we know his first sample weren't from a particulary fat family that could not run very fast and his initial sample was just ones that moved slower ?

Too many factors other than global warming.

[SGCOS]

I just read in here yesterday that a chunk of ice named C-19 had broken off, and was a little smaller than the size of the Chesapeake Bay.

anyway...

Also in the article was a claim that the average temperature in the Arctic has never been lower than it is right now.

I'm so confused...

[Destructor]

Maybe Liberals could go to court and force all of the fast food chains to air drop burgers and fries to the hungry Polar Bears!

[boris]

The difference between these claims and parody is now too small to measure.

[RightWhale]

So a fatty diet of seals is good for bears, but if we want a double bacon cheeseburger at Wendy's our body-monitor NGOs are outraged. Will they ever make up their mind?

[DrDavid]

"Eighty per cent of the adult bears in the Churchill area have been tranquillized, handled, tagged, tattooed, weighed and measured, had blood drawn, teeth checked, their behaviour and life history recorded, many more than once."

Perhaps this tranquillizing and handling has hurt the bears health? You can't make measurements without effecting what is being measured.

[CWRWinger]

I'd like to see about 500 PETA-ites go to the Artic Circle with fresh veggies and feed the thin polar bears.

[Always Right]

"The WWF report shows that polar bears in Hudson Bay are being impacted by climate change," said Lynn Rosentrater

Whose to argue with the World Wrestling Federation?

[Free the USA]

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[smokinleroy]

Increasing CO2 emissions have caused Arctic temperatures to rise by five degrees Celsius over the past 100 years

It boils my blood when they repeat such statements as proven facts. Maybe increased solar activity caused the increase. Maybe inaccurate thermometers caused the increase. Maybe the stove in their research station caused the increase. Maybe their imaginations caused the increase.

By around 2050, scientists now predict a 60 percent loss of summer sea ice

What kinds of scientists? How many scientists? What of the political agenda of these scientists? I'm a scientist of sorts and I predict a 60 percent increase of summer sea ice. I need one other scientist to agree with me so I can issue the opposite statement of theirs. Any takers?

[cogitator]

The difference between these claims and parody is now too small to measure.

I hope you're planning on being around in a decade. I know I expect to be.

I predict that by 2012 a lot of these suggested trends will turn out to have been quite accurate predictors. It's kinda like the current situation about the harbingers of the September 11 attacks: there was a lot of suggestive evidence of what might happen, but nobody was able to put it together because it was too diverse. Nonetheless, when examined in retrospect, the potential for a major attack of some kind was obvious (despite the difficulty of recognizing the actual mode of attack and the targets).

There are a lot of indicators right now in the environment that do not tell us what is going to happen, but they all bode toward a worsening of the current situation. Borderline populations of organisms, i.e., those living closest to the "edge" of the conditions to which they are adapted, will be the most stressed by environmental change. Therefore, trends in those populations will be most indicative.

Thus, we shall see.

[cogitator]

It is always possible to critique on the basis of incomplete knowledge of the data. I don't know the answers to your questions and whether or not the data is accurate or not. I only find information which pertains to the question you asked.

[wbill]

Sure. Personally, I predict widespread glaciers in the lower 48. Why not go all the way?

These 'scientists' use computer modeling to predict the weather. They can't accurately and reliably tell me what the temperature will be in my hometown tomorrow...but they use the same computer modeling to predict the temperature on a global scale 100 years from now? Come on.

Just because 'everybody' thinks a certain way, doesn't make it true. Everybody thought that the world was flat, at one point in time.

Don't get me going on Global Warming.

[Ender@Game.now]

The proof of global warming is the finding of giraffes growing longer necks. This proves that trees are growing faster and all the good leaves are higher up which "selects the taller" (or fatter or whatever) giraffes for survival.
Tomorrow we will show how global warming makes turtle eggs hatch early and they miss the out going tide. /sarcasm

[Always Right]

I predict that by 2012 a lot of these suggested trends will turn out to have been quite accurate predictors.

Oh please take me up on that. I have at least $10K I would put down against the wacko-environmentalist worst-worst-worst case computer similations being anywhere close to correct.

[Always Right]

Increasing CO2 emissions have caused Arctic temperatures to rise by five degrees Celsius over the past 100 years

What is the sourse on that claim? That sounds like an outright lie.

[JasonC]

Next they will be reading sheep entrails...

[Fredgoblu]

Sure. Personally, I predict widespread glaciers in the lower 48. Why not go all the way?

The "Lost Squadron" that ditched in southern Greenland in 1942 was found buried under 268 feet of ice in 1992. How can the glaciers be advancing even as the globe is warming? Hmmmmmmm?!?!?!