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.

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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.

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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?

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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…

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?

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.

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

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…

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…

TATIANA the tiger escapes from its cage at San Francisco Zoo and kills a man.

The Siberian tiger was shot dead. 

Zookeepers at the Honolulu Zoo are “scratching their heads over how one of their tigers — an 8-year-old Sumatran male named Berani — managed to slink out of his enclosure”.

And now news of a royal Bengal tiger wandering into a village in India, about 150 miles south of Calcutta.

An “angry” mob chases the tiger up a date palm tree.

At one point, as many as 1,000 people chased the pregnant tiger through fields and villages, some hitting it with stones. Wildlife workers tranquilized the tiger as it sat in a tree, and they brought the royal Bengal down, where the groggy cat briefly attacked one of the hundreds of villagers surrounding the tree. The tiger was treated for a few minor injuries and was then returned by boat to the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve, where when its cage was opened; the tiger leaped into the water to swim away.

Is this all part of a bid by tigers to be noticed, a cry for help? Are tigers sick of polar bears getting all the attention? Look out for more tiger stories, and tigers…

EXCITING times in the world of zoology and fine dining as a new species of mammal has been discovered in the mountains of Tanzania.

The creature has been dubbed Rhynochocyon udzungwensis, and is a type of giant elephant shrew, or sengi.

The size of a cat, the creature has a grey face, a long, flexible snout, a bulky, amber body, a jet-black rump and it stands on spindly legs.

And now the polar bears are no longer dying out, it might be the face of global warming? The hunt is on for a mate for the little fella..?

POLAR Bear Watch - Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news

THE US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works has been looking at the Arctic ice. And polar bears.

The report notes the work of J. Scott Armstrong, of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Armstrong, the editor of a standard text, “Principles of Forecasting”.
He is the originator of what the Seer-Sucker Theory: “No matter how much evidence exists that seers do not exist, seers will find suckers.”

Dr. Armstrong and his coauthors, Kesten C. Green of Monash University and Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, conclude that the most influential forecasts of polar-bear populations violate at least 73 of the 90 relevant principles of scientific forecasting. They criticize the forecasters for making large extrapolations based on sparse data and questionable models, relying too heavily on a single expert, ignoring contradictory data and tailoring conclusions to fit a political goal (listing the polar bear as a “threatened” species).

So the polar bears are not dying out? We can stop watching the polar bears. And start looking at a new dying breed, something that will perish when global warming kicks in, like the man who turns the light on and off in your fridge, Santa Claus Australians… 

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POLAR Bear Watch - Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news

SO dominate is the polar bear that it is now used to illustrate the curent economic climate.

While some may prefer a sloth bear, Matt Drudge uses a roaring polar bear.

POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news

Nuremberg Zoo’s new celebrity resident, a female polar bear cub, has been branded, sorry, named Snowflake.

Nuremberg Mayor Ulrich Maly announced the name at 3 p.m. Friday at a press conference broadcast live on national television.

Germany is now a haven for polar bears, who are said to be attracted the locale by the country’s renowned white goods, especially chest freezers…

The polar bears are coming… 

POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news

A contest is underway to name the polar bear cub being raised by hand after being taken away from his mother at a German zoo.

The names range from Alaska to Hope or Sunshine, a spokesman for the zoo in the southern city of Nuremberg says. But there are also “traditional names” like Emma, Pauline and Frieda, he adds.

Emma P. Bear. Humanising the polar bears. Polar bears eat their young.

The zoo is holding a public competition to find a name for the female cub, who is reported to be thriving after spending a third day without her mother…Vera.

“We’re getting 15 emails with name suggestions every minute,” says city spokesman Robert Hackner.

The zoo’s keepers have dubbed the cub, thought to be female, Flocke - German for flake, as in snow flake - because of its brilliantly white and fluffy fur.

The pure white German polar bear… What would you call it?

POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news

POLAR bears continue to enjoy a good press.

It was once the way with giant panda bears. A large chuck of Britons grew up watching TV bulletins about panda bears mating, or not, as was often the case.

For such a reason, 90% per cent of adults refer to their private parts as their “Chi-chi”, “Dinga-ling” or “Dip-Dip”.

We never did see a newborn panda, but rumour is that it looks like the contests of a flasher’s mac, a pinkish, limpish, blobish wrinkle of disappointment.

No-one hears of pandas anymore. It’s all polars, these days. Like TV magicians, there is only room in our collective consciousness for one type of bear.

Before pandas it was Gentle Ben the grizzly bear, who was not related to Ben, Grizzly Adams sidekick and beard consultant, who came later.

Btu Grizzly bears and Panda bears are out. Polars are in. And there’s a young polar bear in the mouth of its mother at Nuremburg Zoo.

The keepers are taking no chances and, as the Telegraph report. Mum looks peckish. The bear is now being bottle-fed, not by its mother, rather by humans.

Last year, Berlin Zoo began to raise Knut, abandoned by its mother. Knut is boy bear. This latest polar is a girl, let’s call her Vanny.

The future of polar bears seems full of possibilities…