VANITY: Photo of polar bears in global warming headline PHOTOSHOPPED?

Daily Mail ^ | 2-2-07 | Vanity

[OKSooner]

I think it's photoshopped.

[OKSooner]

Really.

Can they climb vertical, wet faces of ice, especially when there's no apparent reason for them to except to strike a pose for the camera?

I say the other three pictures weren't suggestive enough for the editors, and the picture with the bears on top of the ice floe is photoshopped.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[Williams]

No one claims anything about them being trapped or the ice melting quickly. That's the beauty of liberal claptrap. The short caption I read acknowledged it's no big deal for polar bears to swim 100 miles, but speculated that as distances between ice grows, the polar bears can become more tired and "vulnerable."

I doubt that distances between chunks of ice mean very much at all. The polar bears walk on the ice and swim out to sea to hunt. It's not like the bears have to swim between two particular ice chunks which are getting farther apart.

And in terms of "vulnerable" I don't think the polar bears have any natural predators. This whole "story" is a do over. last year it was bears spotted swimming in the open sea, but of course it came out they do that all the time.

[GRRRRR]

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

If not photoshopped, the ice berg that the visible structure is part of is either very, very large; or it is actually grounded -- otherwise the whole thing would just tip over.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[TommyDale]

My tagline says it all.

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

On the right middle of the page looks to be a rock or mailbox looking thing inside the ice.
Weird, but I'm sure the bears can swim.

[iceskater]

trying to use it as some sort of vastly overdramatic metaphor.

A metaphor for what I like to call "Gore-Bull Warming."

[CindyDawg]

They are riding on the back of a big duck. Probably supper after they hitch a ride:')

[lormand]

Personally, I think it is photoshopped.

The thickness of ice under the bear in the foreground does not look like it could support something as heavy as a polar bear.

[antiRepublicrat]

I'm sure those polar bears swam to a level chunk of ice and then sat on it for weeks, possibly months, while it melted to that state. And now they're stranded.

Give me a break! Polar bears would be extinct if they were that stupid. They'll jump off and swim to shore when they want to.

During eight years as Bill Clinton's vice president, Gore pushed for climate measures, including for the Kyoto Treaty

I don't think he pushed very hard given that he couldn't even convince ONE Democrat senator to vote for it.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Those bears look pretty clean...and articulate!

Well...they are Polar Bears.

However, Joe Biden says that, at long last, Black Bears can be clean and articulate too.

[Desperately Seeking Freedom]

These particular polar bears are not in trouble. But melting ice in the Arctic is general trouble for polar bears, you can bet on that. And melting ice is a symptom of warming. Polar bears could become extinct in the next 50 years, I have no doubt of that, and it is a shame. My own view is that warming is almost entirely cyclical and there is little we can do to make it speed up or slow down.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Can they climb vertical, wet faces of ice, especially when there's no apparent reason for them to except to strike a pose for the camera? "

Yes. Ever hear of bear claws? Their claws are a couple of inches plus this is what polar bears do. This is their environment.

[Spiff]

I guess these morons don't know that polar bears can SWIM. I've seen it myself in the zoo. The bears I saw loved swimming under water, playing with a ball in the water, etc.

[SolidWood]

"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. ...the pair of polar bears look stranded on chunks of broken ice."

The article does suggest that those bears are "trapped"...

[Williams]

Bear on the right, identify yourself.

[iceskater]

LOL.... ya'll owe me a new keyboard.

[Joe 6-pack]

That raises an interesting question...Do Bidens sh!t in the woods?

[aruanan]

Big deal. Polar bears get on and get off pieces of floating ice all the time. Anyone suggesting they look "trapped" is just being absurd.