Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Polar Bears on Parade

Polar bears have been in the news and in the blogsphere a great deal lately.
LauraW has posted a piece over at Ace of Spades HQ about some of the faulty numbers being used to proclaim global warming: F%#@in' Polar Bears Again
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Ann Althouse chimed in several days ago about the use of polar bears to play upon emotions in: The polar-bears-on-the-melting-ice-cap photo.

(As a bonus she details the origins of the Teddy Bear.)
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Did Al Gore stop in Iceland on his way back from Davos?

Read about the polar bear problem being faced by Icelanders over at in this article from The Telegraph (UK): Iceland fears bears that go with the floe
Thick pack ice, the like of which has not been seen for decades, stretched into the western fjords as temperatures plummeted and a bitter wind blew in from -Greenland.

(I really liked this photo posted by a commenter to the Iceland story—so is stole it:

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