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

[HAL ALTMAN]

Don,
Would you mind signing your last name, wo we can keep up with who said what
to whom?
HAL ALTMAN

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:22 PM, bill weinerth <bweinerth at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  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><cfrench1366 at aol.com>
> * wrote:
>
>
> From: Catherine French <cfrench1366 at aol.com> <cfrench1366 at aol.com>
> Subject: [CINC] BBC E-mail: Polar bear 'cannibalism' pictured
> To: "CINC Rain List" <channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org><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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