Sentences with phrase «thinking of those polar bears»

Go ahead, stop thinking of those polar bears.

I dare you right now to stop thinking of polar bears.

When most people think about wildlife in a changing climate, they think of polar bears clinging to melting ice, but even species who have adapted to tropical weather are being impacted by the changes to their environment.

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.

If the thought of a polar bear stranded on a patch of melting sea ice doesn't depress you enough, try this video on for

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But Rogers, a senior fellow at lefty U.S. think - tank Demos and contributor to The New York Times Magazine and The Nation, spends most of her page count debunking the notion consumer - end market decisions are going to save the polar bears, or the planet.

An ambitious study of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Alaska has found that their overall metabolic rate is 1.6 times greater than thought, says wildlife...

«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.

The 18 July suspension of government researcher Charles Monnett, originally thought to have been triggered by questions about his 2006 study of drowned polar bears (see background), actually relates to Monnett's management of $ 50 million in research contracts.

POLAR bears have patrolled the planet's icy regions for millions of years longer than previously thought — riding out several episodes of global warming in that time.

I don't think the public views polar bears the same way as most other endangered species and this is one of the reasons that we laid out some of the options.

Say, I've been thinking about this gobble warming thing, and after seeing some footage of a polar bear swimming, I think the theory may be true after all.

I don't think there is much in this that changes my view of what polar bears have done and what the future holds for the species.

[April 20, 7:22 a.m. Insert I think this work bolsters the view of scientists who've been calling for a conservation strategy for polar bears and other ice - dependent species focused on areas of the Arctic where sea ice is projected to endure well into this greenhouse - heated era.

Their data also indicate that the point when it was previously thought that the polar bear line started may have been one of possibly multiple hybridization events with grizzly bears instead.

There's been a lot of discussion of the fate of the polar bear in a warming climate so I thought it worth adding a few more insights from scientists studying this remarkable animal's past and assessing its future.

Although in the end, it may be that recommendations for polar bear refugia may overshadow the distributions of other resources, I think that moving ahead with strong recommendations, without at least considering the distributions of other competing resources (and, by the way the concerns of local people who may live in the areas), is a bit like getting the cart ahead of the horse.

Later today, I'll add a long string of thoughts on polar bears and climate change that I've received in recent days for a variety of scientists.

I do know a number of registered republicans who are seriously ticked off at her legal action regarding polar bears, but I don't think that's what Palin meant in the interview.

If we think of environmental issues that way instead of polar bears in the Artic and rainforests around the tropics, then there are a number of advantages to that.

I think that polar bear will extinct soon not untill the end of this centory because our human being.

Since I'm not one of those who believes testing it is worth lifting a finger for, I'm not really the one to provide it, but I note that the world is not short of those who think otherwise, and who can be relied upon to supply all manner of metrication with their catastrophic alternative hypotheses — polar bears melting, ice - caps dying out, models that project soaring temperatures — you know the sort of thing.

Crockford has published «briefings» on conservative think tanks and has been described as a polar bear expert, but uses a «scientific uncertainty» and «public accountability of science» framework to criticize scientists» findings.

Ultimately though, we know less than we think we do about what actually drives conflicts between polar bears and people and since we're rapidly running out of luck in a warming Arctic, this knowledge gap urgently needs to be closed.

Max, we can show that Mann's work is garbage, Rahmstorf's «worse than we thought» relied on pretend data, Monnett's polar bear study is beyond stupid methodology, Briffa's magic tree, Jones» fake Chinese data, the SST wild ass guesses, the Steig Antarctic smear, the «quality» underlying Harry's Read Me, the repeated refusal by the hockey team to share data or engage in any transparency, and the underlying fraud of Climategate.

We think of it as physically distant — involving polar bears, or small island nations we've never visited.

You [and many more] really think you've found the holy grail with this one don't you BilB, the rational to tax and command every human for the original sin of living on the planet, especially all those neo fascist luddite racist sexist misogynist bodgy capitalists who do all those things and give you all that stuff only to expect payment for it when the government should take it and give them to you free; you can finally bring the commanding heights of the world's industry and agriculture and lifestyle under the infallible control of an inter government body and everyone who is permitted will be in his permitted place doing his permitted thing and all will be as it should be and the planet will be safe for the polar bears and the spirogyra.

It seems very odd to me that Pagano and colleagues suggested no reasons for the unexpectedly poor showing of polar bear hunting success during their study except a bit of hand - waving about higher - than - we - thought metabolic rates in the bears.

Snow depth over sea ice in spring affects the hunting success of polar bears on ringed seal (Phoca hispida) pups, but the relationship is more complicated than you might think and there is less data on this phenomenon than you would believe.

Maybe if I was a polar bear I;d think different... but there are only ~ 25,000 of them living in a very narrow ecorange.

(Well, good if you think having lots of extra polar bears is good.

First, the non-ironic reason: Lomborg starts his book with a chapter on polar bears, presumably because he thinks it's one of his strongest arguments — it isn't.

It has, they haven't because the polar bear biology was wrong is an example of the type of attack I think most effective.

goodbye polar bears, forests of BC, cod, birds, didn't mean to poison you we thought it was a good idea at the time please come back we've got digital cameras!

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».

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: