From CNS News:
From that article:
“The PBSG confirmed its earlier conclusion that unabated global warming will ultimately threaten polar bears everywhere,” it said.
At the same time, the report cited an American scientist who told the group that a research team had used a collar to track a polar bear that swam for more than 650 kilometers across the sea. “He described the extensive spatial data recovered from one particular collar that showed the bear swimming more than 650 km in the Beaufort Sea,” said the report.
Despite its concern that climate change could threaten the polar bear, the group also said it supported the right of human beings to “harvest” the bears.
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Where’s the one that’s holding a bottle of Coke?
“Despite its concern that climate change could threaten the polar bear, the group also said it supported the right of human beings to “harvest” the bears.”
I support the right to arm bears.
Give it time and the story will change to: The lack of polar bear population recovery is a rock-solid proof of the negative impact of AGW.
It used to be all about the seals………..
The bears survived the MWP and many other periods where there was very little ice. Polar bears didn’t just evolve in the last 1000 years. They survived before, and they will survive in the future.
I support the right of the Innuit people to bare arms when global warming becomes unbearable.
Welll – after Coke and Algore made them cute and cuddley, that caused a huge influx of enviro people which greatly increased their available food supply! So of course they are doing fine with the new source of food (since global warming killed all the seals). 😉
“Despite its concern that climate change could threaten the polar bear, the group also said it supported the right of human beings to harvest the bears.”
It works the other way too. I have a friend who used to work in Alaska (driving trucks I believe in the oil field regions). He described how a polar bear hid itself above the doorway to their cabin, and then proceeded to take a man’s head off as he exited the cabin…
Unfortunately, people still think of them as cute and fluffy stuffed animals…
“…the report cited an American scientist who told the group that a research team had used a collar to track a polar bear that swam for more than 650 kilometers across the sea.”
Undoubtedly this was the same bear later spotted trekking accross hill and dale, and along highways to hug a Nissan Leaf owner.
Anybody who thinks polar bears will go extinct with an ice-free Arctic summer must be off their medication.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.08.016
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AGUFMPP11A0203F
http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/227
The swim story was earlier covered by the BBC. Drowning polar bears my foot.
So are 25,000 polar bears too many, ,just enough or too few?
Ask your local Greenpeace/WWF representative. Expect a blank stare. Do not blame them. I do not know. Do you?
Seriously folks…if they stabilise at this figure or more particularly if they start to increase……you have to ask, how many do we want? How will we know when the population is “optimal”? Or even what optimal means? Still shooting them while we decide does not seem to make a lot of sense, either.
Won’t someone think of the seals!
Polar bears defecate on the ice.
Pope is a Catholic.
As long as we don’t shoot them. We can, and have, done what is necessary to assure the survival of polar bears. We’ve stopped killing them off in job lots with rifles.
Seals are aplenty.
But, since the people counting polar bears are the same ones who exaggerate everything in their purview, I suggest that the real number is at least double, or 50,000. This time they de-exaggerate, or count with one eye tied behind their backs.
Canadian Land Sharks, oh pardon me, Polar Bears have adapted well to changing weather environments over multiple Ice Ages and the Interglacial periods in between. Heck, they even survived the up to ~2.5c warmer 8,100 years out of the last 10,500 years quite nicely.
“One small fossil, one giant step for polar bear evolution
April 2010
As the fuzzy and ferocious poster child for climate change issues, polar bears get plenty of press, whether it’s coverage of something as simple as the birth of a cub at a zoo or as political as a rejected ban on trading polar bear parts. Last month, however, saw a polar bear story of a different ilk — a story about the bears’ evolutionary past that has implications for their evolutionary future. Polar bears, it turns out, may have evolved surprisingly quickly in response to past climactic changes. Here, we’ll examine the different lines of evidence that led scientists to this conclusion.
Where’s the evolution?
In 2004, researchers discovered a polar bear fossil preserved in Norwegian coastal cliffs. It was the lower left portion of the jaw, still containing a tooth. And though this might not sound like much information to go on, the single fossil would turn out to have a lot to say about polar bear evolution.
The polar bear jawbone fossil that revealed so much about the history of polar bears.
The polar bear jawbone fossil that revealed so much about the history of polar bears.
Based on the jawbone’s shape, scientists were confident that it belonged to an adult male polar bear. The rock layers in which it was embedded, along with other dating techniques, suggest that it is 110,000 to 130,000 years old — older than any other known polar bear fossils. This date alone is interesting because previous estimates for the origin of polar bears have ranged from 70,000 to more than a million years ago. But, based on the new fossil’s age, we can infer that the polar bear lineage must be more than 110,000 years old.”
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/100401_polarbears
Never forget that bears are land sharks and you need to be very wary and careful of them when encountering them in the wild (or even at the zoo http://pathstoknowledge.net/2009/07/05/the-only-way-to-save-the-polar-bears-is-to-send-us-money-wwf-tv-advertisement/).
The bottom line is the polar bears are NOT in decline. However, this won’t stop the news media and alarmists from repeating the same lie over and over.
426 miles in 9 days? That’s swimming almost 2mph 24/7. That’s cookin’!!!
When looking at the numbers of bears killed, and the estimated number of bears poached or killed illegally, it appears to me that climate change is the least of their worries. The other thing that’s problematic is the regions where populations are unknown, and based on estimates.
Meanwhile, WWF is airing commercials to basically adopt a polar bear…with the tear jerker ad aimed at people with the emotional maturity of a 9yr old girl. Not far off of a “donate or we’ll shoot the puppy” approach.
National Geographic is also guilty of continuing to present videos stating that the bears are in peril. If they say it enough we’ll believe it??
LOL – Best SNL skit ever!
Looks like they are able to swim about six times as far as previously thought.
Philip Foster says:
May 20, 2011 at 11:52 am
Oh sh*t! So it’s polar bear crap that’s causing a change in ice albedo and this aids melting! Whats that old saying? – something like – ‘Don’t sh*t on your own doorstep’?
For those who are unfamiliar with the PBSG, they are one of the most moonbat of the IUCN SGs. They were formed because the Bear SG was not lefty enough. So reading this report was a bit of a surprise for me.
Nah, they just ran out of fingers and toes to count on. Probably lost them to frostbite after they figured they didn’t need gloves or boots anymore.
Note that the white bears are well armed with teeth and claws.
Fun little game the greens and feds are playing here: plus up the worldwide numbers of polar bears. Then watch them decimate the seal population until they are also endangered and list both species as endangered, locking up the Arctic from oil and natural gas exploration for as long as they can get away with it. Cheers –
650 km swim across the sea? That’s not a surprise. Polar bears are the corks of the animal kingdom. I wonder how many hours the bear slept during the trek? That one fact alone puts to rest the entire fiction about polar bears drowning in open water. Put one into the middle of a humongoid arctic storm – sure they could drown! I’ve watched “Deadliest Catch.” Those waters can be just a tad unsettled during a major storm. Otherwise, forget it. Polar bears actually have to work to stay submerged. Gore should take his animators out for dinner and drinks for the convincing con job they came up with in his fairy tale.
A couple years ago, I read somewhere that some well-meaning, but otherwise completely uninformed people had designed a life vest for the poor polar bears, to stop them from drowning, since all of their ice would soon be gone. That was one of the best LMAOROF moments I’d had in a long time. Even my 14 year old understood what a moronic idea it was. The sad part was when she shared the story with her friends, they all thought it was a great idea. And some of them didn’t want to hear the truth about the physiology of Ursus Maritimus. Personally, I was hoping to hear about the attempts of these fools to actually “dress” a 1500 pound male, and their subsequent invitation to dinner – the bears!