Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Impressionable students taken to the Arctic for climate brainwashing

ksl.com - Utah teen shares arctic experience with students back home
Sixteen students are literally living in the midst of polar bears in a really unusual vehicle they call a "Tundra Buggy." It tends to dwarf a 1,000-pound Polar Bear.
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The students have learned that global warming is a severe threat; two-thirds of the bears may disappear in the next few decades. "I've gotten so, well, I've become a lot more motivated to talk to people about it," Abrianna said.

She'll be home soon with experiences to bring to the discussion most people would never dream about.

Abrianna has set up her own non-profit organization to help the bears and combat global warming. You can learn more by clicking the related links to the right of the story.
The accompanying video shows some polar bears that appear well-fed.

From a brainwashed 15-year-old's related site
When we started conservation methods for the polar bears in the 1980's their population numbers shot up. After the numbers increased they gradually began to decline again, the problem is, is that if the polar caps continue to melt at this rate experts say, two thirds of the current population will most likely be gone by 2050, leaving a population of 8'000 in the wild! They are not sure when it will happen but, not long after their first mass extinction they will disappear altogether.

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