Alarmist professor Jim McCarthy speaks

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RINDGE -- Harvard professor Jim McCarthy says polar bears and Boston's Quincy Market may become martyrs due to rapid global warming.

"You can't rule it out," said McCarthy, a professor of biological oceanography who is president of the Association for the Advancement of Science and former co-chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. McCarthy addressed more than 80 concerned residents who attended a global warming conference at Cathedral of the Pines Sunday.
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McCarthy's goal is to make sure the tides are changing in the right direction. He presented a slide show with graphs and images depicting the melting of the polar ice caps.

"If some of these pictures look familiar, it's because I gave them to a guy who used them to make an Academy Award-winning movie with them," said McCarthy.

He also referenced a recent report from the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment that that showed Boston's Quincy Market under water in the next 100 years.

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McCarthy presented several images illustrating the plight of polar bears, showing them swimming in ice-free seas and stranded on small rocky islands far from the ice. Polar bears normally feed on seals that come up to breathe at holes in the ice, staking out the holes and pouncing on the seals when they poke their heads up. Without ice, however, the bears, though proficient swimmers, are no match for seals in the water, leaving them increasingly hungry during ice-free months.