[CINC] BBC E-mail: Polar bear 'cannibalism' pictured

Sun Dec 11 20:22:46 PST 2011

I think there is a place for questioning.  This is part of the scientific method.  There is also a place and time to recognize the observations that we have.  The Union of Concerned Scientists assert, "The overwhelming evidence is that global warming is taking place and that the major cause is human activity - especially the burning of fossil fuels."  The polar bear picture was a bit of distortion, I agree.  Taking a distortion and trying to make it the truth is a mistake either way it is taken.That there are too many people could be a major part of the problem or it could be too many people are consuming hugh quanities of resources.  I ask; it is possible for more of us to live more simply?Bill Weinerth
 Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:19:04 -0800
From: dvabbott at verizon.net
To: anthonynsocal at yahoo.com
CC: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org
Subject: Re: [CINC] BBC E-mail: Polar bear 'cannibalism' pictured

    Hi Anthony,

        Kudos for speaking the truth.....and I believe there are more Polar
        Bears today then there were 30 years ago.  

    Ref.: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1ea8233f-14da-4a44-b839-b71a9e5df868

    The latest government survey of polar bears roaming the vast Arctic
    expanses of northern Quebec, Labrador and southern Baffin Island
    show the population of polar bears has jumped to 2,100 animals from
    around 800 in the mid-1980s.  

      Mankind
        is screwing up the environment and we need to
        do a better job; however, the real problem is there are too many
        of us.

        However, mankind is not the cause of global warming and it
        saddens me as an Honest Steward of Our Environment to see the
        MCGW hoax being continually spun via RAIN for public
        consumption.

      The
        glaciers did not start to melt due to mankind 18K years ago and
        mankind is not the cause of their continuing to melt today. 

       My
        best,

        Don

        PS: If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary
        that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible,
        all things. Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) 

    On 12/8/11 6:20 PM, Anthony Lombardi wrote:

            I think the
              storyline is very misrepresenting of the story, this is
              not a story of climate change, but a hungry, oppurtunistic
              animal.  My point is that polar bear and bear populations
              across the globe as well as many other species have seen
              cannibalism.  Look at the grizzllies, males that are
              hungry will go after and eat a cub, just as would a polar
              bear.  You have baboons eating chimpanzees,  lions eating
              cubs of other prides etc..... It's not a climate change
              issue!   Remember reading the story of the photographer
              that took the picture of the polar bear clinging to the
              piece of ice in the ice flow on the front cover of a very
              well know magazine, and the headline was global warming or
              climate change and all of a sudden everyones hearts were
              melting as fast as the glaciers, blah.  Then later come to
              find out he admitted the picture was taken during the
              summer melt.  Pictures can be quite deceiving just like
              the media.

              --- On Thu, 12/8/11, Catherine French <cfrench1366 at aol.com>
              wrote:

                From: Catherine French <cfrench1366 at aol.com>

                Subject: [CINC] BBC E-mail: Polar bear 'cannibalism'
                pictured

                To: "CINC Rain List" <channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org>

                Date: Thursday, December 8, 2011, 8:29 AM

                This is gruesome but
                  understandable. It's all about food in the animal
                  kingdom. Fits into discussions about climate change.

                  I saw this story on the BBC News iPad App and thought
                  you should see it.

                  ** Polar bear 'cannibalism' pictured **

                  A photojournalist snaps an image of cannibalism among
                  polar bears - a situation that is becoming more common
                  as sea ice dwindles.

                  < http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16081214
                  >

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                  Catherine French

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