NRDC "thinking": Alarmist sees a polar bear that looks plump and healthy; takes it as a sign that carbon dioxide is dangerous

Everybody Wake Up! There's a Polar Bear! | Barry Nelson's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

Our particular bear looked plump and healthy. It didn’t appear to be hungry.
... After several hours watching the bear – and taking turns packing our rafts more hastily than usual – we pushed off with sighs of relief, the knowledge that we had seen something remarkable, and a sinking feeling that this memorable sighting didn’t bode well for these bears. As excited as we were, this was not an entirely happy encounter.

Standing on the tundra that morning, I felt in a personal way the threat that unchecked global warming poses to this magnificent animal, to the Arctic Refuge – and, as we watched this out-of-place bear, to my wife and me.