Over the weekend, The Uka Guardian ran a story that went viral. It included a soul crushing video of a starving polar bear that supposedly proves there is a global warming crisis. The video is sad. It shows an emaciated bear trying to rummage for food. A conservation group recorded this summer in Canada's Arctic region. Photographer Paul Nicolin said, my entire Sea Legacy team was pushing through their tears and emotions while documenting this dying polar bear. This is
what starvation looks like. It is a slow and painful death. The filmmakers blame global warming, they said, as temperatures rise and sea i smelts, polar bears can't find their main food source seals. Now wait, instead of crying, why not help the bear? Of course that crossed my mind, said Nicolin, But he didn't have four hundred pounds of seal meat handy. Besides, he says, there was no saving this individual bear. Well here the facts. Polar bears are not starving in mass thriving.
Another news item two weeks ago documented two hundred fat and happy polar bears in the Russian Arctic feasting on a whale carcass. The worldwide polar bear population is stable. It's even increasing in places like Alaska. Nobody knows why this bear didn't make it. It could have been sick, which happens in nature, but we do know this. A soul crushing video blaming global warming is total bs and these people didn't have the courage to save a starving beast. M