Sentences with phrase «images of polar bears»

Climate change is a reality however, and most of the world has seen lots of evidence of this in the form of images of polar bears and melting glaciers.

What drives the political argument of environmentalists is catastrophism and images of polar bears clinging to ice floes.

Are the images of polar bears isolated on small ice floes symbolic rather than actual representations?

Although images of polar bears at sea may seem innately plaintive, the sea is in fact their element, as their scientific name — Ursus Maritimus — signifies.

IMAGES of polar bears drifting on isolated chunks of ice made the species a poster child for the perils of climate change.

Reading Robert Pondiscio's recent article («The Left's drive to push conservatives out of education reform») calls to mind Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» and its powerful image of a polar bear drifting helplessly on a shrinking sheet of ice in a warming sea.

The need for «sweating the details in climate discourse» came up here in 2010, after the journal Science picked a faked image of a polar bear on an ice floe to accompany a letter on the seriousness of global warming from 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences.

This image of a polar bear on Barnard Harbor in Alaska was used in a Senate debate about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.Photo: Subhankar Banerjee «Art has always reflected what is in our world and in our horizon and...

Has the image of polar bear become a hot potato that is becoming increasingly uncomfortable too handle?

Not exact matches

As Gore shows with a litany of statistics, maps, and charts — not to mention the film's stark images of drowning polar bears, crumbling ice caps, a Katrina - lashed New Orleans, and drunken trees sliding sideways on melting permafrost — global warming is really happening.

Installed in conjunction with the more traditional gallery exhibition, 33 °, the murals range from the humorous, an image of tourists wandering aimlessly across an aqua blue expanse, to a sobering, a black fissure opening stark and deep in what we are to assume is an arctic ice sheet, to the iconic, a lonely polar bear drifting on a small iceberg.

F l o M a a k digitally manipulates his photographs to introduce images of zebras and polar bears into man - made artificial shelters, while Sonia Shiel «s sculptural installation of everyday objects and materials combines elements of the natural environment and contemporary consumer society.

When we discuss climate change, visual images pop into our head of melting glaciers, polar bears, drought, forest fires, and industrial smokestacks.

«There have been no new reports of falling polar bear numbers, and images of fat, healthy polar bears abound,» paleozoologist Susan Crockford noted.

All the graphs, stats, equations, characteristics of the scientific method, or facts from physics are replaced by an image of a lone polar bear swimming in open water.

The image of melting glaciers in the Himalayas has been called one of the two principal «icons» of global warming alarmism, along with polar bears, who have been declared a «threatened» species despite the fact that their numbers are growing.

An emaciated polar bear is seen on a small sheet of ice in this image taken in August in Svalbard, north of mainland Norway.

Polar Bears Have Big Feet has no gory images, no discussion of starving bears, climate change, or threatened species — just fabulous pictures of polar bears doing what they do in their natural Arctic habitat, accompanied by lighthearted descriptions.

If there is an iconic image that communicates the desperation wildlife faces when pitted against the magnitudinous force of global warming, it is the lone polar bear stuck on a melting ice flow.

Perhaps because the image we associate most often with a changing climate is not the devastation left by a flood in our own state but rather a polar bear perched on a chunk of melting ice or an African farmer bearing silent witness to the impacts of a disaster that's taken place on the other side of the world.

Satellite composite image of Antarctica, showing the largest know ice cap ever at Earth's South Pole And now about the Polar Bears, those stories and the «documentary» film about the death of a polar bear are not factual.

That's a far cheerier image of the future for Earth Day than those poor trapped polar bears.

While Dezeen stuck to the PR release, Inhabitots thought it was «a great conversation piece» for a child's room, GreenUpgrader described it as «a creative reminder of the polar bears plight», but Green Daily found the rug qualified as «depressing decor» that «evokes images of the apocalypse».

The only thing that could be more upsetting than images of an adult polar bear eating his cub is the fact that it's a scene that's occurring with increasing frequency throughout the Arctic.