Canadian photographer's video of emaciated polar bear on Baffin Island goes viral

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Canadian photographer's video of emaciated polar bear on Baffin Island goes viral
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Published:
December 9, 2017
Updated:
December 9, 2017 5:07 PM EST
A polar bear sits along the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Man. on Nov. 7, 2007.Jonathan Hayward / The Canadian Press / File
The effects of climate change, such as a shorter feeding season and less seal to eat, could have caused the emaciation of a bear shown in a viral video, a polar bear expert says.
The video, shot by National Geographic photojournalist Paul Nicklen, racked up over a million views and depicted a skeletal bear foaming at the mouth and digging through a metal barrel for food on Baffin Island.
Ian Stirling, an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta who has specialized in polar bears for four decades, says the period that bears are able to feed has shortened by about three weeks, and that could be the reason why it was starved.
Polar bears are able to go months without food, but Stirling says that a slightly longer period without food, combined with the fact that there is less time for bears to store fat and eat enough seal, could be what is causing bears to die of starvation.
“The key feeding time is being shortened and shortened progressively,” said Stirling. “So they’re coming to shore with less stored fat, they’re having living longer on it, and some of them are just running out of gas.”
Stirling says it’s likely that the bear in the video is suffering because of the changing climate in the arctic. While polar bears in other parts of the world are experiencing different difficulties due to various climate conditions, Stirling says it’s likely that they will eventually face the same situation as the bear in the video.
Stirling says he’s already witnessed polar bears who seem to have died of starvation (death by starvation can only be confirmed by autopsy), and has seen many others near death while working in the Norwegian arctic.
Nicklen, who planned to address the video at his New York art gallery on Saturday, says that when he hears scientists say that polar bears will be extinct in the next hundred years, he thinks of thousands of the animals starving to death as they are in the video.
Nicklen says he hoped that the video, which he described as “soul-crushing,” could help break a cycle of apathy towards the polar bears and their starvation.
“We went to the Canadian Arctic to document the effects of climate change,” wrote Nicklen. “We found the good, the bad and the ugly, but mostly just beautiful animals and landscapes we want to protect,” he wrote.
Canada marks one year since eight provinces and the three territories signed the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change on Saturday. The plan aims to put a price on carbon, eliminate coal-fired electricity and work on energy efficiencies for buildings to help Canada cut emissions.
At least six major environment policies, bills or strategies to implement parts of the framework are expected in 2018.
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[Johnnny]

Kinda sad to be honest.

 

[Danbones]

Mother effen jeez...the OP is bullSH!T!!!
(no offence meant SPAM!)

"...When scientists say polar bears will be extinct in the next 100 years, I think of the global population of 25,000 bears dying in this manner..."

WTF! Is this guy on brain dead nazicommie propaganda crack?

"Thank you your support in keeping my @sea_legacy team in the field."
(from the OP)
IT'S A FUNDING SCAM

This means the adjusted 2015 global estimate for polar bears should be about 28,500 (average), a marked increase over the official estimate of 26,500 (average) for 2015 — and an even larger increase over the 2005 estimate of about 22,500 (average)2, despite the dramatic loss of summer sea ice since 2007 that we hear about endlessly.

It is increasingly obvious that polar bears are thriving despite having lived through summer sea ice levels not predicted to occur until 2050 – levels of sea ice that experts said would wipe out 2/3 of the world’s polar bears (Amstrup et al. 2007; Crockford 2017 v3).

Updated 1 June 2017: see addition to Footnote 2.

A result, I have been remiss to point out [updated 28 Feb. 2017 & included in revised Version 3 of Crockford 2017], that Drs. Kesten Green, Scott Armstrong and Willie Soon correctly concluded in 2008 was a likely outcome. In their 2008 paper that roundly criticized the USGS forecasting methods used to support placing polar bears on the US Endangered Species List (Armstrong et al. 2008:390), they concluded:

“Given the upward trend in polar bear numbers over the past few decades, a modest upward trend is likely to continue in the near future because the apparent cause of the trend (hunting restrictions) remains.”

So when you hear, “Save the polar bears, their future is grim” next week, remember that polar bears are thriving right now because those future predictions were flawed: summer sea ice is not critical habitat for polar bears

https://polarbearscience.com/2017/0...on-larger-than-previous-thought-almost-30000/

Not to mention the polar ice was supposed to be GONE by 2013

 

[petros]

The oldest known polar bear fossil is a 130,000 to 110,000-year-old jaw bone, found on Prince Charles Foreland in 2004. Fossils show that between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago, the polar bear's molar teeth changed significantly from those of the brown bear.

130,000 years and they've survived a plethora of "climate change" events. What is different this time?

 

[Hoid]

Mother effen jeez...the OP is bullSH!T!!!
(no offence meant SPAM!)

"...When scientists say polar bears will be extinct in the next 100 years, I think of the global population of 25,000 bears dying in this manner..."

WTF! Is this guy on brain dead nazicommie propaganda crack?

"Thank you your support in keeping my @sea_legacy team in the field."
(from the OP)
IT'S A FUNDING SCAM

This means the adjusted 2015 global estimate for polar bears should be about 28,500 (average), a marked increase over the official estimate of 26,500 (average) for 2015 — and an even larger increase over the 2005 estimate of about 22,500 (average)2, despite the dramatic loss of summer sea ice since 2007 that we hear about endlessly.

It is increasingly obvious that polar bears are thriving despite having lived through summer sea ice levels not predicted to occur until 2050 – levels of sea ice that experts said would wipe out 2/3 of the world’s polar bears (Amstrup et al. 2007; Crockford 2017 v3).

Updated 1 June 2017: see addition to Footnote 2.

A result, I have been remiss to point out [updated 28 Feb. 2017 & included in revised Version 3 of Crockford 2017], that Drs. Kesten Green, Scott Armstrong and Willie Soon correctly concluded in 2008 was a likely outcome. In their 2008 paper that roundly criticized the USGS forecasting methods used to support placing polar bears on the US Endangered Species List (Armstrong et al. 2008:390), they concluded:

“Given the upward trend in polar bear numbers over the past few decades, a modest upward trend is likely to continue in the near future because the apparent cause of the trend (hunting restrictions) remains.”

So when you hear, “Save the polar bears, their future is grim” next week, remember that polar bears are thriving right now because those future predictions were flawed: summer sea ice is not critical habitat for polar bears

https://polarbearscience.com/2017/0...on-larger-than-previous-thought-almost-30000/

Not to mention the polar ice was supposed to be GONE by 2013

Nobody is questioning your scientific credentials.

 

[DaSleeper]

Anyone consider that that bear could be sick for another reason, I once shot a fox with rabies that was emaciated, woobly on his feet and foaming at the mouth like that!

But that video makes for nice religious propaganda!

 

[Hoid]

no. All these wildlife experts were fooled. It is only you internet scientists that are able to figure these things out.

 

[lone wolf]

Bears die and new bears are born. Nature's a bitch that way. It's sad ... but it happens.

 

[Hoid]

exactly. what difference does it make if that bear dies from old age or starvation. Dead is dead, right?

 

[lone wolf]

exactly. what difference does it make if that bear dies from old age or starvation. Dead is dead, right?

Only makes a difference when you see it. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody's there to hear it, did it make a sound?

I'll admit, I'd feel sad ... but there's nothing you can do. In the shape that bear's in, the kindest thing you can do is leave it in peace

 

[pgs]

exactly. what difference does it make if that bear dies from old age or starvation. Dead is dead, right?

Pretty much survival of the fittest . Adaptation to change helps as well .

 

[petros]

130,000 years of polar bears.

How did they manage to survive and thrive after the intense climate change 11700 years ago?

Pretty much survival of the fittest . Adaptation to change helps as well .

It's the most adaptable not the fittest that survive.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

I'm not going to debate whether or not it is starving, because I really don't know.

Stirling says he’s already witnessed polar bears who seem to have died of starvation (death by starvation can only be confirmed by autopsy), and has seen many others near death while working in the Norwegian arctic.

Maybe the bear had cancer or leukemia?

 

[Danbones]

Hey, Do you have a pencil stuck in your nose...

again?

LOL...maybe you shouldn't play with them and glue at the same time.

 

[taxslave]

no. All these wildlife experts were fooled. It is only you internet scientists that are able to figure these things out.

Those are not wildlife experts. They are fund raisers for National Geographic and its various eccoweenie groups. It plays well to the gullible in the cities who think that Arctic is ice all year round except the North West Passage which everyone knows has been ice free since 2013.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

except the North West Passage which everyone knows has been ice free since 2013.

:laughing3:"I am Al Gore, and I approve of this message":laughing3:
-- A guy who sounds a lot like and lies like, Al Gore.

 

[Hoid]

note: internet scientists not convinced bear or climate change are real.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

note: internet scientists not convinced bear or climate change are real.

Why exactly is the bear starving?

 

[Hoid]

because there is too much food available for him?

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

because there is too much food available for him?

I'm not being an asshole here. Serious question. I'm asking you what your opinion is to why the bear is starving to death and obviously, its connection to climate change.