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Further to this week’s 60 Minutes polar bear debacle:
(Via Sondrak and StraightShooters)
Gorgeous pic! That is just so funny
Tara Brown however will not see the funny side of this I reckon after her little faux pas last week
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 02 23 at 10:33 AM • permalinkI think that the picture might actually be Photoshopped—real polar bears would also be pleading for blueberries, I’m sure. (Fresh, not frozen.)
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 23 at 10:37 AM • permalinkThere was a link in an earlier thread (I’m too lazy to search it out) which led to an explanation of this picture. It’s been used as proof of global warming and melting ice, but the original caption on the picture was of polar bears that had swum out to an ice floe that has been carved by waves. It isn’t photoshopped, AFAIK. It also isn’t proof of global warming and starving bears. In fact, they look pretty healthy to me. Not that they wouldn’t mind a nice tasty hunk of media idiot.
#5—You’re kidding me. You mean polar bears can swim?
So like, if the ice they’re no melts, they can swim to another piece? Who would have thought?
I must inform Bob Brown. He’ll be so happy to know the bears aren’t doomed.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2007 02 23 at 11:14 AM • permalinkBut Sen. Kerry supports the polar bears, Dave S., he just wants to show that support by cutting off the floe of funds for those poor, illiterate crackers.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 23 at 12:05 PM • permalinkActually, I think you get bear shit. You know, the little brown piles that smell like pepper and have bells and little whistles in them.
And this “Global Worming” thing, are we sure the bears even want to get wormed?
A more serious link.
Did you know that the US is outperforming Europe on CO2 emissions? While I don’t buy the AGW argument, I do think that keeping the atmosphere as clean as we can without seriously harming economic growth is a good thing. Besides, pointing it out is sure to get your nearest US Bashing watermelon’s panties in a twist.
The funny thing is, this is happening under W.
I really wish the gentlemen from the other firm, you know, the lefties, could be reached by logic.
First belly laugh of the day—hope the guys who did the original get to see it.
Can polar bears make power-fists or does that require opposable thumbs?
Don’t know about that, but they sure do a lousy head tilt.
The picture’s origins. The caption:
Mother polar bear and cub on interesting ice sculpture carved by waves. photo © Amanda Byrd.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 23 at 12:29 PM • permalinkAlright, one last pedantic AGW post.
If America cuts down on its consumption of oil and natural gas, this will depress the price of these resources, allowing the Chinese and Indians to buy more of them. As anti-poverty policy, this may be excellent, but as environmental policy it is useless—possibly worse than useless, because inefficient Chinese equipment will get less energy per unit of carbon dioxide emitted, and produce more secondary pollutants.
Oh, and now first beaver spotted in NY City in 200 years.
I will leave it to others to make the (in)appropriate jokes. But hooray for glogal wramrening.
The polar bears are all running around with books titled “To Serve Man”. We are still trying to translate the rest.
It’s a cookbook! A COOOOOKBOOOOK!
With recipes for Soylent Green - which is made from PEOPLE!
On a planet where apes evolved from men - wait a minute - Statue of Liberty? Oh, my God. I’m home. We never left. You blew it up! You maniacs! God damn you! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
“It had to happen because beaver populations are expanding, and their habitats are shrinking,” said Dietland Muller-Schwarze, a beaver expert at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. “We’re probably going to see more of them.”
Chalk it up to counter intuition, but that just doesn’t seem right. Are their habitats shrinking because their populations are expanding? Or are they shrinking due to encroachment and the ill effects of—gasp—goreball warmening? In which case, shouldn’t the beaver population be shrinking right along with its habitat? Shouldn’t populations decline under adverse conditions (at least in the long run)?
It’s a cookbook! A COOOOOKBOOOOK!
What’s that from, Dave (got a bad case of CRS today)?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 23 at 04:32 PM • permalink“Can polar bears make power-fists or does that require opposable thumbs?”
I’ve seen leftys doing the power-fist, so obviously, an opposable thumb is not a requirement (ditto for a fully developed nervous system).
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 02 23 at 05:18 PM • permalink#28—Kyda: There must be something more to the expert’s explanation, as the sighting of the beaver (and the beaver lodge on the bank of the Bronx River) in New York City, would indicate an expansion of habitat. But then much like the deer, whose habitat is claimed to be declining, mostly due to suburban sprawl, the deer population, in places like heavily populated Westchester County (directly north of NYC) is at levels not seen in 200 years.
I think there is a definitional nuance at play regarding habitat, natural habitat, and traditional habitat, as many of these mammals are adapting their habitats to include closer proximity with humans, in there search for food.
And don’t even start on the bear population (and habitat) in New Jersey.
And I wonder if the happy news being conveniently left out of the beaver story is that the Bronx River is no longer so polluted that beaver can now survive there? BTW, save a tree: eat a beaver. (I think you might get some carbon credits for it, too.)
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 23 at 05:28 PM • permalinkI wanna be a ‘beaver expert’. Where do you go to school for that and what courses do you take?
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 02 23 at 06:22 PM • permalinkI’m guessing you have to closely examine a whole lot of beavers, right? Right? (I do live fairly close to Big Beaver Road here in Michigan, which when it was being repaired a few years ago led to great headlines like: “Big Beaver to Close Indefinitely” and “Motorists Cheer Big Beaver Opening.”)
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 02 23 at 06:25 PM • permalink#34, JorgXMcKie, well yeah, you could learn about that at school… Right now I’m thinking of the senior year at St Trinians…
Aaahhh, look how warm and cuddly they are.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 02 23 at 07:38 PM • permalink#37 I thought it might be, Forbes. I can’t recall the story from several years ago, but the liberal media here was screaming about water pollution in the Great Lakes, especially L. Ontario I’d guess, while ignoring that L. Erie has been so cleaned up that there’s a commercial fishery operating there now and that salmon have returned to Toronto’s creeks and rivers. The lakes are massively better today than they were in the ‘70s and earlier, but the “news” reports were making it seem like they were worse.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 23 at 07:40 PM • permalink#7 Yes, and it is written in Polar Bear dialect too.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 02 23 at 07:41 PM • permalinkP.S. I wonder if the WWF will let me adopt the specific polar bear who tried to eat the Aussie 60 Minutes reporter?
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 23 at 07:43 PM • permalink
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I hope John Kerry personally goes over to visit with those polar bears. And takes Hillary with him. And Al Gore.
Great photo op guys.
No, don’t be silly, polar bears don’t eat people. Really. Honest. I wouldn’t lie to you.
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