For years, an iconic
picture of a polar bear on an ice floe was used to frighten children into clutching their stuffed teddy bears and demanding Mommy and Daddy act to save them.
Accompanying his paper (below) was a photo - shopped
picture of a polar bear stranded on a shrinking piece of ice.
In a remarkable bit of irony, the art chosen by editors (not by the authors of the letter) at Science to accompany the letter was
a picture of a polar bear on an ice floe.
When she's not in the kitchen, you might find her chasing after her Golden Retriever, spending time with her husband, making questionable puns, filling her house up with plants, trying to practice yoga, nerding our over nutrition books and doodling
pictures of polar bears onto the backs of her grocery receipts.
News articles referring to the Arctic and its sea ice usually have
pictures of polar bears accompanying the text.
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.
The white - filled garret bottom left is a refrigerated ice diorama used to create
pictures of polar bears happily playing on abundant Arctic Ice.
We know we're in the midst of some serious climate change, and don't need
pictures of polar bears stuck on fragmenting ice caps to drive the point home.
The Melting Arctic Melting Ice Displaces Walruses In The Russian Arctic Ice Melt Causing Death of Polar Bears And there were
the pictures of polar bears stranded on sheets of floating ice, accounts of their deaths «as a result of Global Warming» and even a documentary about the plight of the polar bears.
So, to justify why he thought the # 4.4 billion spent on the LHC would have been better spent on climate change, Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government, current president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and author of books about climate change that have
pictures of polar bears on the cover, has little choice but to resort to hyperbole and extravagation:
Not exact matches
Sources
of boxes
pictured above: dark blue skinny box — Ichiban Kan brick and mortar store,
polar bear box — Jbox.com, light blue bird box — All Things for Sale, all others — Daiso Japan.
The study «paints a realistic
picture of how complicated the management
of Arctic species will be going forward,» adds Mike Runge, a research ecologist and
polar bear expert with the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland.
In a playful text and
picture - book format perfect for emergent readers, a persistent goose wins the affection and friendship
of a preoccupied
polar bear.
The two figures symbolize
polar opposites and are represented here, the former by a plate with a Georgia O'Keeffe — style vaginal form, part
of Dinner Party on the Eve
of My Conception (Or: We Were
Born Under a Dark Star)(2017), and the latter by a
picture of an American bald eagle, in a series titled Reading Room (Belgium)(2016).
Part
of the Web Cam buoy blocks the left side
of the
picture (I'm not sure how the camera became twisted on its mount -
polar bear self - portrait attempt perhaps?).
And they most certainly did not forecast, and would have been aghast had they done so, the CAGW scam, the Y2K - make - a-buck scare, the new - ice - age - scare, Al Gore's weight problem, the unbelievably vast sums to be made off
of eco-appeals featuring heart - wrenching
pictures of adorably cute and cuddly - looking baby harp - seals about to be clubbed to death for their fur, Ditto for photo - shopped
pictures of forlorn looking
polar bears adrift on ice - floes, universities stuffed with tenured climate science parasites, the improbable appearance
of the NGO, watermelon life - form, and the like.
This «education» takes many forms: from blatant propaganda, like the UK government's  # 6 million «drowning puppy» ad campaign, the Obama administration's recent Climate Assessment Report and the one released by a group
of compliant senior US military figures calling themselves CNA Military Advisory Board, to more subtle brainwashing ranging from school trips to wind farms and ice cream containers with pictures of wind farms on the side and oil company adverts illustrated with wind farms (to show they're not just «all about oil») to, well, pretty much everything these days from supermarket delivery vehicles boasting about how much biofuel they use to Greenpeace campaign ads involving polar bears to Roger Harrabin's reporting for the BBC to Showtime's Years Of Living Dangerously.
of compliant senior US military figures calling themselves CNA Military Advisory Board, to more subtle brainwashing ranging from school trips to wind farms and ice cream containers with
pictures of wind farms on the side and oil company adverts illustrated with wind farms (to show they're not just «all about oil») to, well, pretty much everything these days from supermarket delivery vehicles boasting about how much biofuel they use to Greenpeace campaign ads involving polar bears to Roger Harrabin's reporting for the BBC to Showtime's Years Of Living Dangerously.
of wind farms on the side and oil company adverts illustrated with wind farms (to show they're not just «all about oil») to, well, pretty much everything these days from supermarket delivery vehicles boasting about how much biofuel they use to Greenpeace campaign ads involving
polar bears to Roger Harrabin's reporting for the BBC to Showtime's Years
Of Living Dangerously.
Of Living Dangerously...
However, consistent with Mann's efforts to promote
polar bears as an icon
of catastrophic global warming, Mann expressed no concern about Gleick's fake
polar bear picture.
Pictures of ice calving from the Arctic ice pack and
polar bears stranded on ice sheets drifting in the frigid water bring an emotional charge to the discussion.
when you've forgotten about when
polar bears used to roam the arctic, don't worry kid, i've got tons
of pictures of how they lived — all housed in a datacentre in that building over there....
Pictures of stranded
polar bears perched on crumbling ice floes, seemingly all - at - sea in the face
of global warming, inevitably grab the attention.