The photo below has been getting wide circulation in global warming news, with the articles implying in every case that we are looking at doomed bears on a melting ice floe far from land.
The Rest of the Story:
The photo is from an arctic expedition in 2004 in the Beaufort Sea. From July through September.
The bears can be seen in a different photo in Dispatch 2.
It is quite obvious from the text of this dispatch and the other dispatches that the expedition, at the time the bears were spotted, was not only surrounded by thick pack ice most of the time (in fact, enough of it to make progress in an icebreaker difficult), but that nobody in the expedition thought these two bears were in any kind of danger.
One more load of bullshit from the dogma brigade, targeted at people who think with their guts, not their brains. We're going to be seeing that top picture for years. And who's going to bother to look into it?
Those poor, lost polar bears...
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- Those poor, lost polar bears...
- Saw an article on a helicopter which was shot down.
- Things must be slow at work, TB.
- Blogs, Limbaugh, etc.
- How are the spotted owls doing?
- Beats the hell out of me.
- re: How are the spotted owls doing?
- Screw the spotted owls!
- How are the spotted owls doing?
- A clarification...
- Not really.
- Blogs, Limbaugh, etc.