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More polar bear cubs die as Arctic ice melts
reuters ^
| July 18, 2011
| Deborah Zabarenko
Posted on 07/20/2011 4:58:09 PM PDT by PROCON
(Reuters) - Polar bear cubs forced to swim long distances with their mothers as their icy Arctic habitat melts appear to have a higher mortality rate than cubs that didn't have to swim as far, a new study reports.
Polar bears hunt, feed and give birth on ice or on land, and are not naturally aquatic creatures. Previous reports have noted individual animals swimming hundreds of miles (kilometers) to reach ice platforms or land, but this is one of the first to show these swims pose a greater risk to polar bear young.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: agw; alarmism; algore; chickenlittle; climatechange; globalwarming; golobalwarminghoax
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Oh, the Huge Manatee!!
Let me be the first to say:
Bush's Fault!
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posted on
07/20/2011 4:58:15 PM PDT
by
PROCON
To: steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
07/20/2011 4:59:07 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Don't even get me started on man-made globalwarming!)
To: PROCON
Oh good, I needed a new rug.
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posted on
07/20/2011 4:59:47 PM PDT
by
reaganaut
(Ex-Mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost, but now am found; was blind but now I see")
To: PROCON
To: PROCON
Polar bear cubs forced to swim long distances with their mothers as their icy Arctic habitat melts appear to have a higher mortality rate than cubs that didn't have to swim as far, a new study reports.
That actually makes sense but doesn't mean anything other than bears that swim long distances tend to die more often The fact that they compare them to bares that don't swim long distances seems to negate their headline grabber.
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posted on
07/20/2011 5:01:48 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: PROCON
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
There’s the sea ice map for today. Where on that map is it possible for a polar bear to swim just 100 miles, let alone ‘hundreds’, in order to transit open ocean between land masses and ice floes? It is not possible and this story is just sheer BS.
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posted on
07/20/2011 5:01:48 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
To: PROCON
Al Gore is to blame... Get rid of the carbon hogging jet plane, Al.
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posted on
07/20/2011 5:01:49 PM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: PROCON
I hope the Koch brothers are satisfied!
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posted on
07/20/2011 5:02:00 PM PDT
by
GSWarrior
To: PROCON
And how do you go about finding a lot of dead polar bear cubs which have obviously become bait??
They're going to have to convince me this is true with a lot of actual data...not projected data.
To: PROCON
This is good. Gets rid of the weak genes.
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posted on
07/20/2011 5:02:39 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: Retired Greyhound
Cheers!
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posted on
07/20/2011 5:02:39 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: PROCON
I call Barbara Streisand.
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posted on
07/20/2011 5:02:47 PM PDT
by
FourPeas
("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
To: PROCON
Here in King County in Washington state, they passed an ordinance the requires everybody WADING in a stream or lake to wear a life jacket!
Maybe we should pass a law that all polar bears have to wear a life jacket.
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posted on
07/20/2011 5:03:14 PM PDT
by
irishtenor
(Everything in moderation, however, too much whiskey is just enough... Mark Twain)
To: PROCON
Hmm... let’s see... cubs who have stupid mothers who give birth far from food sources are more likely to die than those with smart mothers who give birth closer to food sources...
I think there’s a name for that process... (thinking...) now what could that be...
Oh yeah, I think it’s called “evolution”.
To: PROCON; Little Bill; Desdemona; Nipfan; carolinablonde; marvlus; DollyCali; markomalley; ...
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posted on
07/20/2011 5:03:46 PM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
(If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
To: Retired Greyhound
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posted on
07/20/2011 5:05:07 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Don't even get me started on man-made globalwarming!)
To: irishtenor
So if an adult wants to swim in a lake they are required to wear a lifejacket?
To: PROCON
There were 50 long distance swims....IN 6 YEARS....
I think they created a very phoney stat.
To: irishtenor
Here in King County in Washington state, they passed an ordinance the requires everybody WADING in a stream or lake to wear a life jacket! Maybe we should pass a law that all polar bears have to wear a life jacket.We had an OSHA inspector (one of Holders people), demand our guys wear life jackets to work in a ditch with 3 inches of water flowing.
She couldn't find the precise regulation in her book, but she was sure it was there.
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posted on
07/20/2011 5:13:32 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: Maine Mariner
YES!!!
Even those competing in Triathlons!
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posted on
07/20/2011 5:13:56 PM PDT
by
irishtenor
(Everything in moderation, however, too much whiskey is just enough... Mark Twain)
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