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- basye, on 09/11/2008, -17/+316What happens when his blankie melts?
- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -8/+290HEY WAIT A MINUTE
THATS IN A ZOO - amr05h, on 09/11/2008, -39/+266:( the unfortunate answer is no.
- oneperday, on 09/11/2008, -49/+258Someone needs to send this to Sarah Palin
- Strobe81, on 09/12/2008, -13/+204ok, thats freaking adorable.
- DivisibleByZero, on 09/12/2008, -19/+136Yeah, global warming is what locked that polar bear up in a zoo. damned Republicans.
- acmaurer, on 09/11/2008, -7/+95As much as I love kitten pidgin, thanks for not using it in this headline
- iCanHasUsername, on 09/12/2008, -5/+93So if you shoot a Polar Bear ice comes out?
- Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -8/+88I'd vote for the bear before I'd vote for her.
- fwertz, on 09/12/2008, -12/+90Sarah Palin needs to get laid by a Polar Bear on a bed of ice?
- oo7evan, on 09/11/2008, -5/+61Okay, but keep it in the fridge.
- Lloydinator, on 09/11/2008, -23/+79I guess polar bears will have to evolve into tropical bears from now on since global warming is moving full speed ahead.
- mbonzo531, on 09/12/2008, -14/+68Evolution and global warming are real??? You have obviously not read the bible.
- Namaha, on 09/12/2008, -1/+50As a percentage of population, more polar bears drown every year than humans. It isn't fair to say more humans drown than polar bears as a flat number when there are over 6 billion of us around, and only 20k-25k bears.
- BeeArePro, on 09/12/2008, -1/+45All of a sudden I got an urge to grab a coke..
- sircomix, on 09/12/2008, -1/+43You mean they don't have cubed ice and cement slabs in teh wild?
- shenaniJen, on 09/12/2008, -0/+41The zookeeper brings him more.
- HyphySoul, on 09/12/2008, -1/+38damn, this makes me wanna buy them a bunch of bags full of ice from the gas station
- inactive, on 09/12/2008, -3/+38He must have just finalized the foreclosure of his igloo.
- ancientdinko, on 09/12/2008, -6/+41Looks like he dumped his Coke.
and where is cola bear now huh?....he's swimming aimlessly way out somewhere in the arctic ocean. - kelmaster1, on 09/12/2008, -1/+35shh! It's supposed to be global warming!
- charm803, on 09/12/2008, -9/+39So she can shoot at it? She's no exactly a fan of the animals.
- Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -5/+35Luckily he won't drown...unlike his friends.
- fwertz, on 09/12/2008, -1/+27I'd vote for the ice.
- vodkataime, on 09/12/2008, -2/+26You've obviously never watched lost.
- GeorgeStone2, on 09/12/2008, -8/+30Thats a zoo btw.
- sexybobo, on 09/12/2008, -1/+22how? he is in a zoo and they gave him some ice to play with.
- Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -17/+36I think I'd enjoy seeing Palin get mauled by a polar bear. I agree, let's send this to Sarah!
- langdonalger, on 09/12/2008, -6/+25you, of course, got your from years of research, and not right wing propaganda.
- kashk5, on 09/12/2008, -3/+22That would get me to vote for her
- Anarchon, on 09/11/2008, -9/+28Bawwwwww!
- inactive, on 09/12/2008, -4/+23Reyalp, there's hunting, there's preservation and then there's paying people to shoot wolves from airplanes.
Palin has asbolutely no respect for animals. I'm a hunter, btw. - blahtastic, on 09/12/2008, -1/+19We made him drop his SnoCone :(
- iCanHasUsername, on 09/12/2008, -5/+22QUICK! THIN OUT THEIR NUMBERS BEFORE THEY STARVE TO DEATH!
- Tbyrd073, on 09/12/2008, -0/+17Yes.
- reyalp, on 09/12/2008, -10/+26Hunters actually contribute significantly to the preservation and habitat of wildlife. But hey, don't let your lack of information on the subject get in the way of running your mouth...
- LimeParrot, on 09/12/2008, -7/+23That's sadder than I thought it would be...
- U83RMENSCH, on 09/12/2008, -11/+27aw..! thats is so ***** adorable and sad :(
- diggenerate, on 09/12/2008, -10/+25Please, that picture is from a zoo.
- dracken, on 09/12/2008, -3/+18He becomes a godless killing machine
- advil, on 09/12/2008, -1/+15he heads for the algae pool
- Lyndoman, on 09/12/2008, -17/+31At least Global Warming is not caused by man (according to Palin) so it's not our fault.
- CaptainNoPants, on 09/12/2008, -3/+17enough about your personal life, we're talking about polar bears.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -2/+16....and bring them to the local zoo....
- Nubli, on 09/12/2008, -6/+20Except for all the ones that are dying.
- Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -2/+15I doubt that Mr. PanCake will provide any information so I've done some research on the subject for those who may be interested.
"In areas where long-term studies are available, populations are showing signs of stress due to shrinking sea ice. Canada's Western Hudson Bay population has dropped 22% since the early 1980s. The declines have been directly linked to an earlier ice break-up on Hudson Bay. A long-term study of the Southern Beaufort Sea population, which spans the northern coast of Alaska and western Canada, has revealed a decline in cub survival rates and in the weight and skull size of adult males....
The IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group reclassified the polar bear as a vulnerable species on the IUCN's Red List of Endangered Species at their most recent meeting (Seattle, 2005). They reported that of the 19 subpopulations of polar bears, five are declining, five are stable, two are increasing, and seven have insufficient data on which to base a decision. On May 14, 2008, the U.S. Department of the Interior reclassified the polar bear as a Threatened Species under the Endangered Species Act, citing concerns about sea ice loss. Canada and Russia list the polar bear as a 'species of concern.'"
http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/bear-facts/ - darookee, on 09/12/2008, -2/+15o rly?
- BillOrly, on 09/12/2008, -2/+14He dies.
- inactive, on 09/12/2008, -10/+22We are in a cooling phase. The mainstream media and foundation funded lefty sites will still have you believe we have global warming when the exact opposite is true. Global Cooling? Unprecedented Ice Storms In Kenya http://www.prisonplanet.com/global-cooling-unprece ...
MYTH 1: Global temperatures are rising at a rapid, unprecedented rate.
FACT: Accurate satellite, balloon and mountain top observations made over the last three decades have not shown any significant change in the long term rate of increase in global temperatures. Average ground station readings do show a mild warming of 0.6 to 0.8C over the last 100 years, which is well within the natural variations recorded in the last millennium. The ground station network suffers from an uneven distribution across the globe; the stations are preferentially located in growing urban and industrial areas ("heat islands"), which show substantially higher readings than adjacent rural areas ("land use effects").
There has been no catastrophic warming recorded.
MYTH 2: The "hockey stick" graph proves that the earth has experienced a steady, very gradual temperature decrease for 1000 years, then recently began a sudden increase.
FACT: Significant changes in climate have continually occurred throughout geologic time. For instance, the Medieval Warm Period, from around 1000 to1200 AD (when the Vikings farmed on Greenland) was followed by a period known as the Little Ice Age. Since the end of the 17th Century the "average global temperature" has been rising at the low steady rate mentioned above; although from 1940 – 1970 temperatures actually dropped, leading to a Global Cooling scare.
The "hockey stick", a poster boy of both the UN's IPCC and Canada's Environment Department, ignores historical recorded climatic swings, and has now also been proven to be flawed and statistically unreliable as well. It is a computer construct and a faulty one at that.
MYTH 3: Human produced carbon dioxide has increased over the last 100 years, adding to the Greenhouse effect, thus warming the earth.
FACT: Carbon dioxide levels have indeed changed for various reasons, human and otherwise, just as they have throughout geologic time. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the CO2 content of the atmosphere has increased. The RATE of growth during this period has also increased from about 0.2% per year to the present rate of about 0.4% per year,which growth rate has now been constant for the past 25 years. However, there is no proof that CO2 is the main driver of global warming. As measured in ice cores dated over many thousands of years, CO2 levels move up and down AFTER the temperature has done so, and thus are the RESULT OF, NOT THE CAUSE of warming. Geological field work in recent sediments confirms this causal relationship. There is solid evidence that, as temperatures move up and down naturally and cyclically through solar radiation, orbital and galactic influences, the warming surface layers of the earth's oceans expel more CO2 as a result.
MYTH 4: CO2 is the most common greenhouse gas.
FACT: Greenhouse gases form about 3 % of the atmosphere by volume. They consist of varying amounts, (about 97%) of water vapour and clouds, with the remainder being gases like CO2, CH4, Ozone and N2O, of which carbon dioxide is the largest amount. Hence, CO2 constitutes about 0.037% of the atmosphere. While the minor gases are more effective as "greenhouse agents" than water vapour and clouds, the latter are overwhelming the effect by their sheer volume and – in the end – are thought to be responsible for 60% of the "Greenhouse effect".
Those attributing climate change to CO2 rarely mention this important fact.
MYTH 5: Computer models verify that CO2 increases will cause significant global warming.
FACT: The computer models assume that CO2 is the primary climate driver, and that the Sun has an insignificant effect on climate. You cannot use the output of a model to verify or prove its initial assumption - that is circular reasoning and is illogical. Computer models can be made to roughly match the 20th century temperature rise by adjusting many input parameters and using strong positive feedbacks. They do not "prove" anything. Also, computer models predicting global warming are incapable of properly including the effects of the sun, cosmic rays and the clouds. The sun is a major cause of temperature variation on the earth surface as its received radiation changes all the time, This happens largely in cyclical fashion. The number and the lengths in time of sunspots can be correlated very closely with average temperatures on earth, e.g. the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period. Varying intensity of solar heat radiation affects the surface temperature of the oceans and the currents. Warmer ocean water expels gases, some of which are CO2. Solar radiation interferes with the cosmic ray flux, thus influencing the amount ionized nuclei which control cloud cover.
MYTH 6: The UN proved that man–made CO2 causes global warming.
FACT: In a 1996 report by the UN on global warming, two statements were deleted from the final draft. Here they are:
1) “None of the studies cited above has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the observed climate changes to increases in greenhouse gases.”
2) “No study to date has positively attributed all or part of the climate change to man–made causes”
To the present day there is still no scientific proof that man-made CO2 causes significant global warming.
MYTH 7: CO2 is a pollutant.
FACT: This is absolutely not true. Nitrogen forms 80% of our atmosphere. We could not live in 100% nitrogen either. Carbon dioxide is no more a pollutant than nitrogen is. CO2 is essential to life on earth. It is necessary for plant growth since increased CO2 intake as a result of increased atmospheric concentration causes many trees and other plants to grow more vigorously. Unfortunately, the Canadian Government has included CO2 with a number of truly toxic and noxious substances listed by the Environmental Protection Act, only as their means to politically control it.
MYTH 8: Global warming will cause more storms and other weather extremes.
FACT: There is no scientific or statistical evidence whatsoever that supports such claims on a global scale. Regional variations may occur. Growing insurance and infrastructure repair costs, particularly in coastal areas, are sometimes claimed to be the result of increasing frequency and severity of storms, whereas in reality they are a function of increasing population density, escalating development value, and ever more media reporting.
MYTH 9: Receding glaciers and the calving of ice shelves are proof of global warming.
FACT: Glaciers have been receding and growing cyclically for hundreds of years. Recent glacier melting is a consequence of coming out of the very cool period of the Little Ice Age. Ice shelves have been breaking off for centuries. Scientists know of at least 33 periods of glaciers growing and then retreating. It’s normal. Besides, glacier's health is dependent as much on precipitation as on temperature.
MYTH 10: The earth’s poles are warming; polar ice caps are breaking up and melting and the sea level rising.
FACT: The earth is variable. The western Arctic may be getting somewhat warmer, due to unrelated cyclic events in the Pacific Ocean, but the Eastern Arctic and Greenland are getting colder. The small Palmer Peninsula of Antarctica is getting warmer, while the main Antarctic continent is actually cooling. Ice thicknesses are increasing both on Greenland and in Antarctica.
Sea level monitoring in the Pacific (Tuvalu) and Indian Oceans (Maldives) has shown no sign of any sea level rise. - spidoman, on 09/12/2008, -1/+13Captured polar bears and raised their offspring in captivity, while giving them fake habitats to live in?
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