Daily Mail Taken In By Big Polar Bear Ice Lie, Again

THE Daily Mail features “this 2007 picture of polar bears stranded on eroded ice floes has become the iconic image of the impact of climate change on the Arctic creatures”.

Yeah, that picture - the one taken by the Australian Amanda Byrd in August, when the sun shines and ice, er, melts…

And now, as Bob Parks notes the New York Times is using the picture to illustrate “The Presidential Candidates on Climate Change”.

The polar bear is helpless:

‘Helpless’ is a strange way to describe a half-tonne predator. As the BBC website notes: ‘The polar bear is the largest land carnivore and has a reputation as the only animal that actively hunts humans.’

See the polar bears at these fine organs:

A planet on the edge
Living on thin ice
Riehl World View
Don’t wait to save the polar bear
Polar bear numbers up, but rescue continues

Anorak

Posted: 26th, January 2009 | In: Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink