Wednesday, September 05, 2012

It's back: "Ursus bogus" photo appears again

[See the photo on this page]: Record Low Arctic Melt Indicates Global Warming is Speeding Up — The International
The absence of summer sea ice also poses a problem for Arctic wildlife, including walruses and the critically endangered polar bear...Polar bears often drown due to increased distances they must swim between ice floes. Polar bears have been forced to move south to survive and are now coming into contact with humans more frequently.

ABC news quotes biologist Andrew Derocher from the University of Alberta as stating that, “Polar bears are 100 percent dependent on sea ice. It’s the surface on which they do everything they do. They use it as a walking surface, it’s a hunting surface, it’s the place where they breed.”
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In an interview with Mark Serreze, Director of the NSIDC, he stated that, “We are committed to an ice-free Arctic ocean, and absolutely it could recover. It would require a massive reorganization of how we use our energy resources. It would be unrealistic to expect all of us to take direct steps in converting to wind and solar energy, but we would need to rethink how we use the resources that we currently do.”
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Serreze also stated that, “Part of the solution also requires going nuclear.”
New bear species discovered: Ursus Bogus | Watts Up With That?
(This images is a photoshop design. Polarbear, ice floe, ocean and sky are real, they were just not together in the way they are now)

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