Global Warming: Polar Bear Watch On Arctic Report Card
GLOBAL warming is good news for polar bars. At least it would be if they had agents. As ever the Independent illustrates its story that ice (cold) melts under sun (hot) with a picture of polar bears.
The rule of global warming reporting dictates that one polar bear must be large and the other small, preferably not being eaten by the larger. The bears should not be seen eating a seal, because while less polar bears may be good news for seals, the mantra of Arctic melt permits no positives.
Today’s polar bears are walking on a patch of ice and being employed to illustrate the “Artic Report Card”.
The lesson we should take home is that there has been a “stabilisation in warming” but warming as a whole continued in 2007.
A Richard Spinard, assistant administrator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (nation unspecified), which produced the report, says: “The bottom line is we are seeing some rapid changes in the Arctic.”
Yes, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. Not to be confused with the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, the US Army’s Cold Region Research and Engineering Laboratory or the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme, all of which are mentioned in the article.
No picture of any scientist is supplied, and it thought that until one endangered by extinction can be found - and this is highly unlikely (see above) - readers will have to make do…
Posted: 19th, October 2007 | In: Broadsheets, Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch Comments (10) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 20th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Pig, you having a grunt?
October 20th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Those Polar bears are dangerous bastards, so no real loss there.
October 20th, 2007 at 2:31 am
Errm *cough* excuse me, when is someone going to tell these “scientists” that we’re coming out of an ice age? Somebody slap those crazy foo’s? And pig if you’ve got time
October 20th, 2007 at 12:42 am
nice to see an intelligent conversation for a change NOT
October 19th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Bacteriologists are fun, ever met one?
October 19th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
A pet scientist… how very BBC
October 19th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Shouldn’t think the average boffin is as cute looking as the bears.
I have one on my ottoman
October 19th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Polar Bears are obviously a gang of rogue bears hiding out in the Arctic to escape prosecution for crimes committed in the forest in other part of the world, they all dye their hair white so you can’t identify them. The big one in the picture looks like a bear wanted in the US for picnic basket theft.
October 19th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Ask not what you can do for the polar bear but what the polar bear has ever done for you
October 19th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Polar Bear Yumm!