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

[Barbara Hilburn]

Thanks, Bill, for your plain-speaking way of setting the record straight.

Barbara Hilburn


On Dec 11, 2011, at 8:22 PM, bill weinerth 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> 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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