Sentences with phrase «polar bears came»

This multi-member research team used a new data set (mostly Scandinavian brown bears and Greenland polar bears, for a change) to add not much of anything new on the evolutionary insight front except yet another estimate of when polar bears came to be.1

With more genomes in hand, researchers are teasing out when and how polar bears came to be so successful in such a harsh habitat.

«With most [species], we can identify a localized threat, but the threat to the polar bear comes from global influences on sea ice.»

When the polar bear come to take a pea, Kick him in the ice hole!

where polar bears come out to play.

«You now have polar bears coming into towns, getting into cabins, breaking property and just creating havoc for people up here.»

The first is that the doomsday scenario for polar bears comes, not from real - world observation but from computer - modeled predictions of what might happen in the future if the ice caps melt, etc..

Research from the past 10 years has shown that climate change leads to longer seasons without sea ice, Stirling's team wrote, «resulting in polar bears coming ashore to fast [go without food] for several months in progressively poorer condition.»

Not exact matches

The lyrics of Laurie's hit tune «Victor Vito» come to life with hilarious illustrations by Henry Cole, as two road - tripping polar bears set out on a cross-country mission to find tasty new foods for their Klondike Cafe.

After months of uncertainty, the Buffalo Zoo now is convinced it will be able to come up with the money to construct a new polar bear exhibit.

The IUCN website also points out that, while the polar bear has come to symbolize the impact of global warming on wildlife, many other species are similarly affected, including the ringed seal and well - known species like the beluga whale, arctic fox, koala and emperor penguin.

It had been a different story at RAS's zoological museum a few days earlier, where she wasn't allowed to sample the bones she had come for because they were already covered with drill marks from other researchers who, like her, hoped to mine the relatively small number of ancient polar bear samples to reveal their evolutionary history.

Wild card: McCain and Palin sat on opposite sides of the ice floe when it came to deciding whether the polar bear should be listed as an endangered species earlier this year.

Given these two parameters, the researchers predicted that Neptune, which bears similar polar hotspots, should generate transient polar cyclones that come and go, while Jupiter should have none.

At Bellsund, where the marooned Englishmen had originally come to hunt, they dined on 3 walruses, 11 polar bears, 19 reindeer, 50 foxes and 60 ivory gulls.

«When we think of climate change having an impact on a mammal species, what comes to mind most immediately is an Arctic animal like the polar bear, which depends on sea ice to survive,» Helgen said.

As the team reports July 1 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, supposed yeti and bigfoot samples turned out to come from bears (brown, black and polar), horses, raccoons, one human, some canines (the test didn't narrow down if they were wolves or dogs), cows, sheep, a North American porcupine, a Malaysian tapir and a serow, which is a known animal similar to a goat or antelope.

Small DNA fragments have survived up to 500,000 years, but until now, the oldest complete genome had come from 110,000 - year - old polar bear remains.

Now the question is, can the real climate scientists come forward and present the truth about global warming, or are we in for more ridiculous predictions about an ice free arctic by 2013 and the extinction of polar bears?

Are you the type of individual that can easily write a job resume, but when it comes to providing delicate information about yourself, you end up playing the game, find the polar bear in a white snowstorm on your blank piece of paper or computer screen?

It rears its head in the opening sequence, which sees a photographer (Michael Gambon) come across a polar bear attacking a man.

Season One opens in the aftermath of a plane crash on a deserted tropical island where (we come to discover) a polar bear lives, a rumbling monster crashes through the jungle, a distress signal emanates from the hills, and person or persons unknown continue to keep their presence hidden... for the time being.

Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.

Well take Chip's Challenge, the classic game that came packaged in Windows Entertainment Pack, mix in a little Bomberman, add an icy polar bear kind of feel to...

Promoting polar bears as endangered due to global warming is one of the dumbest ideas the environmental movement has come up with so far.

For example, how exactly did they come up with the 2/3 loss of polar bears by 2050.

And he doesn't want to confuse it with your average polar trip: «No one on this boat has come to see polar bears.

This change speed is dizzying us in the Arctic, even snow buntings come back very early this spring, and polar bears are seen on the thin enough sea ice for seals at the North Pole.

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.

The ice has proved a headache for fishermen, who have been unable to put to sea, but it is what comes with pack ice that has caused most concern: polar bears.

Not only is the pollution's affect on humans discussed, but also the fact that with the ice melts comes problems for polar bears, fishing, travel for the Inuit communities and innumerable other issues.

COPENHAGEN — In the hall outside the United States promotional pavilion at the climate talks, with crowds watching President Obama on video screens as he gave his Nobel Peace Prize speech and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar giving a press briefing inside, a polar bear rearing on hind legs gave a stern warning to the president to make sure an agreement is produced when he comes here late next week.

Now that the truth about polar bears is coming to the forefront, the mainstream press is not too interested in the story.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 — The Interior Department proposed Wednesday to designate polar bears as a threatened species, saying that the accelerating loss of the Arctic ice that is the bears» hunting platform has led biologists to believe that bear populations will decline, perhaps sharply, in the coming decades.

Climate warming is reducing the availability of their ice habitat, especially in the spring when polar bears gain most of their annual fat reserves by consuming seal pups before coming ashore for the summer.

One aspect of the recently published study on Chukchi Sea polar bears (Rode et al. 2014 [now in print] 2013; see here and here) has not been stressed enough: their finding that the differences in overall condition between bears in the Chukchi and Southern Beaufort Seas came down to disparities in spring feeding opportunities and therefore, the condition of spring sea ice.

The only one that comes close to being questionable is the polar bear one.

Since the available hard data showed that polar bear populations have been soaring, not dropping, and since the hard data also show there has been no measurable global warming for at least 18 years, the PBSG had to come up with a scenario that would contradict this rosy trend.

Have a look at the details below and see if you come to the same decision I have: that it's not possible to compare WHB «core» area polar bear population estimates over time.

The plan they came up with was to announce that (computer model - generated) predictions of sea ice decline due to (computer model - generated) predictions of human - caused global warming are so catastrophic that polar bears should be returned to their previous «vulnerable» classification, despite the fact that by all other criteria they are flourishing.

As the poster child for the climate change generation polar bears have come to symbolise the need to tackle climate change.

The New York Times has come up with a new defense against so - called climate denialists who happen to point out that most polar bear populations are steady or increasing amidst climate change: The ice hasn't disappeared as fast as we said it would.

In a polite but misleading article today in a BBC magazine (The polar bears are coming to town) about the relationship of polar bears and Inuit in Arviat, Western Hudson Bay, there is no mention of the on - going feud between Nunavut Inuit and Canadian polar bear scientists regarding invasive research.

if the seal aren't able to come out on the ice, the seals are much more vulnerable on land / beaches, the polar bears will not go hungry.

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Climate warming is reducing availability of their ice habitat, especially in spring when polar bears gain most of their annual fat reserves by consuming seal pups before coming ashore in summer.

I had not realised that polar bear numbers was another field where so many of the numbers came from computer models.

Unusually he was in the frozen North looking at igloos and came across a local hunter transporting a dead polar bear on a sledge.

What a pity it didn't come to him to say that earlier, when the proponents of CAGW were shouting about dying polar bears left and right.

You stand on the pier and you notice the tide seems to be coming in a little higher than it used to and you wonder if it's something to do with incandescent light bulbs killing the polar bears?