Polar Bears And Walruses Can’t Find Any Ice

12 Responses to Polar Bears And Walruses Can’t Find Any Ice

1. P.J. says:

   July 2, 2011 at 2:16 am

   Hmmm … I can’t find any polar bears or walruses either …. probably too cold ;).

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2. Stark Dickflüssig says:

   July 2, 2011 at 2:58 am

   Yeah, but polar bears and walruses can’t sit on single-year ice, they’re too fat from all those lean years of starving because of global warming.

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   • P.J. says:

     July 2, 2011 at 3:05 am

     In that case, the polar bears and walruses will have to eat each other.

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     • ralph says:

       July 2, 2011 at 10:50 am

       If the polar bears and walruses stand on one side of the Arctic will it tip over???

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3. GregO says:

   July 2, 2011 at 3:34 am

   I’m not an ecologist or an arctic biologist or anything like that – just a thinking, voting citizen sort; but if there are plenty of polar bears, (and there are) and the polar bears eat all kinds of other arctic life, then isn’t there plenty of arctic life going on and wtf are we worrying about the f#cking arctic wasteland? Don’t we temperate zone types have any real problems to worry about other than the vast, ice covered, Nordic realms? Just asking…

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4. Jimash says:

   July 2, 2011 at 3:51 am

   It looks pretty icy.
   And that is yesterday, not 6 months ago !
   Isn’t it funny how Fresh Ice gets labeled “rotten “?

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5. Paul H says:

   July 2, 2011 at 9:13 am

   Ah but you have craftily left out Quebec.

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6. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

   July 2, 2011 at 11:02 am

   So why are the numbers going up? Maybe ice isn’t actually important then, we should get the Russians to remove all the ice with nukes like they said they would in the 1960s

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7. Andy WeissDC says:

   July 2, 2011 at 11:40 am

   That is the small area of ice left north of Alaska, Canada and Greenland during the ice-free summers that we have been promised. Small is in the eyes of the beholder.

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8. thechuckr says:

   July 2, 2011 at 12:38 pm

   It is thin and rotten ice! (sarc)

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9. MostlyHarmless says:

   July 2, 2011 at 1:03 pm

   We’ve been told (ad nauseam) that polar bears won’t be able to reach their sole prey (seals) if “all the ice melts”. I pose a simple question – where will all the seals be? Why, on land of course, where all the bears will be.

   I watched a “polar bear expert” proclaim just that on TV recently, and then said that the bears only eat seals. I noticed he and the camera crew were keeping a safe distance from the bears. Straying too close might graphically illustrate what nonsense he’d just spouted.

   A similar penguin “expert” solemnly said that Antarctic penguins were doomed to starvation if the ice disappears. Apparently they need the ice so they can use the “leads” (open water) in the ice to fish. Presumably they’d be totally unable to dive off rocks, or walk into the sea from an ice-free beach? As they do in South America and South Africa and various islands near Antarctica?

   My last question is – do they think we’re stupid?

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10. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

    July 2, 2011 at 1:38 pm

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wondermonkey/2011/06/iconic-platypus-feels-the-heat.shtml

    Platypus are dying too, we had the coldest day ever in Darwin which is in the top north of Australia. I’ll check the streams this weekend and see if I can defrost a Platypus for BBC

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