Newsbusters reports: Teasing an upcoming story on Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams warned of “the habitat of the polar bears melting earlier and faster than ever” and promised “a jaw-dropping look at a way of life quickly disappearing.” [Listen to the audio ]
In the report that followed minutes later, chief environmental correspondent Anne Thompson kept up the global warming alarmism: “This 10-month-old polar bear cub practices his ice-breaking skills on the tundra….But Dr. Steve Amstrup, chief scientist of Polar Bears International, says the greenhouse gases we are putting into the atmosphere threaten the cub’s future.”
While Thompson noted that the arctic polar bear population “runs as high as 25,000,” a sound bite ran of Amstrup proclaiming:
“Liken it to the passengers on the Titanic. It didn’t matter how many people were on the Titanic or how well they were doing, when the Titanic slipped beneath the waves and they lost their habitat, that was it. Polar bears will also go away because of their dependence on the sea ice.”
Read more and see video of the NBC news story : http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2013/11/15/nbc-polar-bears-passengers-titanic-because-global-warming#ixzz2kjsnDNjS
Meanwhile, back in the real world, polar bear expert Dr. Susan Crockford takes on this nonsense. She writes:
Amstrup really wants people to believe that all the polar bears in the world will die some day, all at once, in some mega ice-loss catastrophe!
This is absolutely ridiculous, fear-mongering hyperbole — no models predict all bears will die, even given their worst-case scenerio, see yesterday’s post.
On top of that, we now know that many of the critical assumptions those models are based on are wrong, in part due to data collected by polar bear biologists themselves (see summary here and Monday’s post, “Eemian excuses: the warm was different then, polar bears were fine”).
More here: http://polarbearscience.com/2013/11/14/amstrup-compares-climate-change-to-a-titanic-for-polar-bears/
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Hi All,
A mother Polar bear and her cub were walking through the snow and the cub asked “Mum am I Grizzly bear?” and the mother shakes her head slowly and says,”No you are a Polar bear”. A little while later the cub asks “Mum am I a Brown bear?” and again the mother replies “No you are a Polar bear”. The young bear presses his mother again, “Mum am I a Black bear?” and this time the mother has had enough of the questioning and asks the cub why?
The young bear says,
“because I’m freezing!’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2488048/Inside-polar-bear-prison-northern-Canada-town-Churchill.html
Cheers,
Andy