Polar Bears Take Manhattan And Britain Drowns
THE WWF says we are going to start swimming earlier than expected. Say the nature wrestlers:
Arctic sea-ice in September 1979 and 2007, showing the biggest reduction since satellite surveillance began.
Or as the Telegraph puts it:
Climate change is happening much faster than the world’s best scientists predicted and will wreak havoc unless action is taken on a global scale, a new report warns.
On the other side of the debate is the news that the Alaskan ice is growing.
Posted: 20th, October 2008 | In: Global Warming, Media, Polar Bear Watch | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Polar Bears Can Hear Mother Nature’s Screams
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news…
IN California, scientists are testing the hearing of polar bears “to try to find out whether the noises associated with melting Arctic ice could affect their ability to survive”.
In the wild, polar bears live in one of the quietest places on Earth. For much of the time, the Arctic is a bitterly cold, silent world.
But global warming is changing that. Ice, which is crucial to the bears’ survival, is disappearing and people are moving in.
“We’re expecting industrial activity, shipping, recreation, all of those human activities to increase in the Arctic,” says Dr Ann Bowles, a senior research scientist at Hubbs-Seaworld Research Institute in San Diego.
“We’re going to be bringing noise and activity much closer to these guys. What we’re trying to do is help to protect the bears during this period of transition,” she says.
Ear plugs..?
Posted: 1st, October 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch, Twitterings | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Knut The Polar Bear On Suicide Watch
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news…
KNUT, the German polar bear the Guardian calls an “activist” for global warming, is alive. But his former keeper is not. Thomas Doerflein has died.
THE INDEPENDENT reports: “Love story: Knut mourns his keeper”. Or as the experts put it:
Berlin Zoo yesterday categorically ruled out suggestions that Knut would experience feelings of loss as a result of his keeper’s passing. “It won’t be a problem for him,” said Klaus Lüdcke, a Berlin zoologist, “Knut has been looked after by a whole team – and for him the most important person is the one who brings the food.”
And Doerflein: “He said that he could wish the bear no better first-birthday present than permanent separation.”
Posted: 24th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Feed Homeless People To Washington Polar Bears
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news…
The tall mannequin beneath the polar bear head wore a tattered flannel shirt and dirty pants. Some onlookers said it was there for several hours, peering into the trash can at 14th and Irving streets Northwest until someone called police at 10 a.m.
Polar bears are upon us. Did he speak German? Says the Washington Post:
“It’s a suspicious package,” police spokespeople declared.
So in came the bomb squad and all the precautions of a post-Sept. 11 world.
Posted: 17th, September 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch, Police Log | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Polar Bears Go Green: And Japanese Pandas Revolt
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news…
TO the polar bears enclosure at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan, where the normally white polar bears are making a statement.
The bears have turned green.
Posted: 7th, September 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch | Comments (11) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Polar Bear Watch: Caption Contest
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news…
Posted: 20th, August 2008 | In: Global Warming, Photojournalism, Polar Bear Watch | Comments (19) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Polar Bear Watch: Frightened Out Of Its Skin
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news
A polar bear caused panic in a park filled with children in northern Canada Wednesday before it was shot and killed, reports reaching here said.
The incident happened at Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Parklocated in the suburbs of Iqaluit, capital city of the Nunavat Territory. About 37 kids from a nearby school were having a picnic there, besides other visitors.
Polar bears are endangered:
Conservation officer Johnny Nowdlak skinned the polar bear and doled out the skin and meat to nearby residents. He estimated that it was male, about 10 years old. It appeared to be healthy and was likely looking for food in the park, he said.
Not all that healthy. They’re endangered, don’t yer know…
Posted: 29th, June 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
This Year’s Top 10 New Species: Save The Philautus Maia
THE world is dying. Polar bears are dying. What will we do when the ice melts and even the German breeding programme can’t save the polar bears from extinction?
Why, we will move on and find some new creatures.
Each year the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University announces a list of the Top 10 New Species for the preceding calendar year. This is No. 4 from the menu. Save the Philautua maia:
ASU / IISE
Posted: 25th, June 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch, Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Polar Bear Watch: Journalists Get Rare Bear Shot
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news
Police in Iceland were forced to shoot a polar bear that had apparently travelled several hundred kilometres from Greenland atop an ice floe when the animal charged a group of journalists.
Those endangered polar bears we read so much about:
A 12-year-old girl on a farm near the town of Saudarkrokur, on the Skaga fjord, spotted the bear and alerted the authorities.
Posted: 18th, June 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
How The Polar Bear Saved The World
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news
WHEN Anorak spotted the polar bear appearing with increasing regularity in the media, we wondered if it was the manifestation of a plot to undo pandas, once the mainstay of deprived bears?
But now the truth is out: The polar bear is “An Animal to Save the World”:
Lawyers at the Center for Biological Diversity spent years looking for “an animal to save the world.” Their criteria: A charismatic animal dependent upon arctic ice habitat threatened by global warming that could be listed under the Endangered Species Act.
The Kittlitz’s murrelet didn’t cut it, nor did an arctic spider or Carribean coral species. The polar bear, however, is another story. This year the polar bear joined the nearly 2,000 species listed as threatened or endangered under the ESA, and instantly became the new mascot for global warming policy.
Posted: 10th, June 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Buy A Honda Clarity, Kill A Polar Bear
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news
The new Honda Clarity emits water:
Problem is, when it comes to global warming, water vapor is enemy number one: “Water vapor constitutes Earth’s most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth’s greenhouse effect.”
So buy a Clarity and kill the polar bears!
But not German polar bears…
Posted: 23rd, May 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch, Twitterings | Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Earth Doctor Al Gore Meets The Ambassador For Polar Bears
SAYS AL Gore, leader of the Al Goreans to the peoples of Ohio: “The planet has a fever.
“If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don’t say, ‘well, I read a science fiction novel that tells me it’s not a problem.’ ”
The Wall Street Journal’s readers hear the words, and respond:
Fevers can be a symptom of either a bacterial or viral issue. A doctor can attempt a solution to a bacterial issue, but not a viral one. A virus has to run its course while the body fights it–and a fever is a sign of the struggle to eliminate the virus. Let’s see a scientific consensus that the Earth’s fever is bacteria-related.
And:
Overreacting is common among parents. I remember one morning when my first child was still an infant. Imagine my horror when I discovered that her temperature had risen to 99.5 degrees, almost a whole degree in just under 12 hours. Naturally, I immediately sat down and built a computer model, which clearly projected that by age 30, her temperature was going to be a staggering 19,710 degrees!
Says Gore: “I am Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States of America.
Posted: 8th, May 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch, Politicians | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Polar Bear Watch: Making A Meal Of Wilbaer
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news
Another day and with it another German bear. Today the Mirror focuses on Wilbear, a four-month old polar bear club wowing the crowds at Stuttgart.
Knut Flocke and Wilbaer are all part of Germany’s reaction to global warming. In 2018, Germany will be as cold as the North Pole, and in readiness the country is already stocking up on polar bears.
Posted: 17th, April 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch, Tabloids | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Meet The Flocke: Going Knut For A Polar Bear
MOVE aside Knut, the once cute and lovable polar bear now with jaws dripping with fresh kill, with nails that can rip a blackboard to shreds.
Make way for Flocke, that’s Snowflake to you English polar bear enthusiasts, Germany’s latest superstar polar bear cub
And look out Flocke – polar bears are cannibals and Knut is making slavering noises at the ingénue.
Not that you can years the licking of chops as 500 journalists and a Fiat of cameraman flocke (geddit, German bear fans?) to see the four-month-old bundle of white fur and teeth emerge gingerly into her cage at Nuremberg Zoo.
Says the Mail: “The little bear is the second cub to capture the imagination of the adoring public after Knut the polar bear put a tentative paw outside his enclosure several years ago.”
Knut was born on December 6 2006. It was not until March 23 2007 that Knut made his public debut. That is not “several years ago”, at least not in human terms. It is barely a year, or bearly (geddit?), since Knut bundled into all our lives.
But who cares for that loser?
Posted: 9th, April 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch, Tabloids | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Britain Colder Than An Alaskan Gin And It
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news
In “global warming lobby goes cold after April snow,” the Express features a picture of a polar bear sat on a lump of ice.
Whereas once it was believed the bear’s body heat was causing the ice to melt, it is now thought the ice is in plentiful supply, with more ice to go around than a Holiday Inn lobby in Norway.
As the Express also notes, “Britain is colder than Alaska.”
But, then, thanks to global warming, isn’t everywhere…
Posted: 7th, April 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch, Tabloids | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Polar Bear Watch: Richard Littlejohn, Knut And Darling
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news
Says Richard Littlejohn in the Mail:
This is being touted as the “greenest ever” Budget, but none of it adds up.
It’s about raising money, not rescuing polar bears.
A look at Alistair Darling. Is there something of the polar bear about him?
Posted: 11th, March 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch, Tabloids | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
German Polar Bear Breeding Programme Update
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news
TWO polar bears re playing in Vienna’s Schoenbrum zoo.
The Express says the “two twin cubs” (not three twin cubs), put on a “entrancing performance”. There is “wrestling”. There is “rolling around”.
This is part of the Teutonic polar bear breeding programme, a plan to have each German-Austrian town equipped with its own polar.
There is mention made of Knut, the foremost celebrity polar bear, the subject of a film deal chronicling his “early life”.
Knut is one.
Posted: 5th, March 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch, Tabloids | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Generation Green Fights To Save Santa Claus, Turtles And Polar Bears
A LOOK at Generation Green, the tweenie warmists seeing the end of life on Earth in all they do and see:
“MY hopeless mother is obsessed with plastic bags,” says Soren, a third-grader and “huge fan” of Al Gore’s global warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.
“A lot of plastic can’t be recycled,” says his sister. “The turtles can get suffocated and it can go into the water. My dad gave her a cloth bag but she doesn’t use it. Plastic drives me nuts!”
The Orlando Sentinel says these are the youngest eco-activists learning to save the Earth since preschool.
Tiffany Bluemle 8-year-old son, Will, wanted a “global warming” birthday party last year. He got a “cake decorated as Earth, a bike-repair workshop for his guests and a pinata in the shape of a gas-guzzling Hummer that partygoers beat to the ground”.
Amanda Brosius, 6, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, recently watched a television special on the plight of polar bears losing their icy hunting grounds to global warming. Soon after, she could hear the shower running way too long in the apartment above, where a 7-year-old friend lives. The boy’s long, water-guzzling showers prompted her to speak up.
“He doesn’t care about the polar bears, but I do,” Amanda says. “We’re running out of fresh water and if you don’t be careful the ice will never get frozen and the polar bears will have nowhere to go. Santa will have nowhere to live.”
Santa and global warming. Anyone else see the link..?
The Rise Of The EcoMum: The Horror, The Horror
Posted: 4th, March 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Get The Knut Work-Out DVD And Therapy Kit
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news- with Knut
ONE year ago Knut was just another polar bear. How cute he was.
He became a celebrity. And in “KNUT BAR ALL” the Mirror says a home movie has been released showing nut in the altogether, as his celebrity demands.
“Do you still think I’m cute?” asks the Mail.
Knut now weighs 22 stone, has large teeth and six-inch claws. Celebrity affects different creatures in different ways.
All Knut needs is an intensive course of keep-fit – leading to the Knut DVD workout - and therapy to recapture the slim innocence that so attracted us towards him…
Posted: 3rd, March 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch, Tabloids | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Polar Bear Watch: Heating The Chukchi Sea
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news.
“The lust for profit that may doom these cubs,” says the Express. The cubs are polar bears cubs, three in number; reduced to two in anther shot.
The Express says the polar bears are emerging from their winter hibernation. “Global warming means they have woken weeks earlier than normal.”
And Washington is to blame. The Express says the US is auctioning off nearly 30million acres of “prime polar bar habitat in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea. The land is not being used for starter homes, rather oil and gas exploration.”
And the last thing polar bears needs is more heat…
Posted: 28th, February 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch, Tabloids | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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