What Warming Looks Like - Sun (UK) Runs Photos Of Polar Bears Waiting To Die On Remnant Of Ice Floe

[hatrack]

Can't rerun the graphic - copyright block - but link below.

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This pair, surrounded by miles of open ocean, will almost certainly die from starvation or drowning as global warming melts what little ice they have left. The bears, which hunt on land and in the sea, can swim short distances near the shore.

But long journeys leave them exhausted and suffering from hypothermia — and they are eventually overcome by the waves.

For the first time scientists near the bears home in Beaufort, Alaska, are recording huge numbers of carcasses in the sea. Steven Amstrup said: “We know some have swum for up to 100 miles in a desperate attempt to find food or an ice floe before drowning. It is an increasing problem.”

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http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007050462,00.html

[Liberal Veteran]

1. How very very sad.

I don't pretend that polar bears are cuddly friendly domesticated animals, but my heart breaks all the same as their numbers are decimated by global warming.

[BonnieJW]

2. Heartbreaking

I can only imagine what will eventually happen to all of us. If only Al Gore would reconsider and run for president. By 2008, we will be truly frightened by global warming and he would win easily. I think he would appoint the right people to guide us to the right path. This earth has become so fragile.

[Control-Z]

5. Al needs to consider what will happen

if he doesn't run for president. If global warming is not our number one concern nothing else will matter anyway.

[Harper_is_Bush]

19. So, if Al doesn't run for President Global Warming will not be our #1 concern?

How do you figure that?

I hope you're not waiting for Al to announce before taking individual action and encouraging others to do so as well.

[Control-Z]

20. Of course not

but I don't see anyone else with both the passion and the leadership to take it on. Just my gut feeling about it. I really think we need him.

[Harper_is_Bush]

22. He's telling us what to do already. That's what is needed.

[Control-Z]

23. Yes, he is

but the presidency would put him in a position to reach more people and make a greater impact both nationally and globally. We don't exactly have time on our side.

[phantom power]

3. somebody tell them that if they can hang on until 2050, we'll have it solved.

:puke:

[YankeyMCC]

4. k n r

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. I can't even look at the photos.

Can't we go and save some of them?

[Morgana LaFey]

10. I wish I hadn't

It's utterly devastating.

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. Why can't we go out with tranquilizers and round them up?

[phantom power]

12. Where would they go? It's all disappearing.

[bananas]

16. Maybe we should transplant them to the south pole. nt

[Maraya1969]

21. I was thinking the same thing. They have a place they call the Polar

bear jail where they keep the ones that would have died. I only hope that someone went an saved this babies. :cry:


http://www.geocities.com/mikepolarbear/faq.html

[GETPLANING]

7. That just brings me to tears.

[JohnWxy]

8. perhaps we should send an email with picture to Sen Imhof saying "wish YOU were HERE!"

www.congress.org makes it easy to send emails to Congressmen and Senators.

[lyonn]

He'd just say shit happens

and it is god's will. We have had some dumb politicians here in Okla. but I believe he is the worst. There is something in the water, if it isn't in the bible it doesn't count.

[lyonn]

17. Ugh, double post, must be late.......

[seafan]

9. And these beautiful wild creatures portend our own fate if we do not act.

Thanks, hatrack, for posting this.


Polar scare: Stranded bears die
February 2, 2007


A medium-sized ship with a helicopter, and a crew of qualified animal handlers with dart sedatives could spot and rescue some of these bears using drop nets, load them on board and take them to higher ground.


This is heartbreaking. And it is with even more urgency that we remove this cancer from our White House.

[ramapo]

13. Sickening

I can imagine the confusion and hopelessness of these creatures. Their instincts, developed over thousands of generations, will fail them as there is no solution to their dilemma.

Meanwhile we sit around wondering who'll win the SuperBowl and if there's still enough time to get a giant flat screen tv to watch the game on.

It really sucks sitting around watching our ecosystems collapse.

[Straight Shooter]

14. My heart isn't just breaking, it's being torn in two.

:cry:

[Dead_Parrot]

15. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[connecticut yankee]

18. And the Repukes

still insist that global warming is a hoax.