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Friday, March 09, 2007

Polar Bear Politics

Did you happen to see the pics going around the internet a couple of weeks ago showing some polar bears supposedly stranded on little chunks of ice--due to global warming, of course.

In case you were worried, it's no big deal. From the UK Telegraph:



However, Prof Derocher conceded that some polar bear-related evidence of the damaging effect of global warming was misplaced.

Contrary to concern over a celebrated photograph of a bear and its cub floating on a tiny iceberg, the animals often travel in that way, he said.

'Bears will often hang out on glacier ice or large pieces of multi-year ice,' he said.



(How polar bears deal with global warming)

And the bear population is doing quite well despite "global warming," thank you very much.


A survey of the animals' numbers in Canada's eastern Arctic has revealed that they are thriving, not declining, because of mankind's interference in the environment.

In the Davis Strait area, a 140,000-square kilometre region, the polar bear population has grown from 850 in the mid-1980s to 2,100 today.

"There aren't just a few more bears. There are a hell of a lot more bears," said Mitch Taylor, a polar bear biologist who has spent 20 years studying the animals.


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