DRowned polar bears pictures?

Question

Does anyone know where i can find pictures of dead/drowned polar bears i need them because im makina a chain letter that will advise peopl on what is happening with global warming

Answer 1

Sometimes I wonder if the people who answer these kind of questions have any idea what they're talking about (I'm talking to you davem). While polar bears are excellent swimmers, they cannot swim endlessly...after all they are bears, not marine life.

They often become stranded in the ocean due to breaking ice sheets and as a result, they drown trying to swim back to shore. You don''t see these kind of pictures because honestly, how many photographers do you think are there ready to take a snapshot of a drowning polar bear?

Now I got that out of the way, to answer your question.

http://weehaggis.files.wordpress.com/200... (this one isnt drowning but it's stranded)

there are more similar pictures on google images, good luck with your chain letter

Answer 2

I promise this is a dead, drowned polar bear.

http://www.wunderground.com/data/wximage...

Answer 3

We know from bore hole records that temperatures during the MWP were far warmer than what they are today in Greenland. (Dahl-Jensen et al. 1998).  They survived that period and they will survive now.  

That is unless you believe what some computer models are telling you what they think temperatures will be hypothetically 100 years from now.

Answer 4

polar bears won't be affected that much by global warming. Dude, they won't drowned. They'll live aff of land... up north where it's really cold or down south where it's really cold. People think that global warming is going to happen over night, well it's not. New glaciars are forming. In fact, in alaska, one is threatening a town.

Answer 5

I dont think you should call it a "chain letter". You should just send out an email talking about the effects of global warming for polar bears. Otherwise, people wouldnt read it.

Answer 6

this will help with your chain letter http://www.dailytech.com/Myth+of+Consens...

Answer 7

try

Answer 8

Yeah you can go on google and type. "Polar bears drowning" and you will get some pictures. Also try to go to Peta.com and search polar bears may be you get something.

any search engine you can find something. I know i got some pictures for my project.

Answer 9

Adult bears aren't likely to drown, however what's happening is that immature bears, still with their mothers are drowning as leads get too big for their endurance levels.

The Canadian government is very concerned about this due to the fact that old ice is becoming scarce in the Arctic Ocean, it being a 50-50 chance that large areas will open up at the end of this summer, ice free.

I'm pretty sure you might find some images on Environment Canada as I have seen some in my meanderings of immature bears floating after drowning.

Answer 10

Polar Bears are thriving.  Don't buy into the Gore c**p!

Seal populations on the other hand, may need to be watched...... not because of so-called global warming.... but because of over-hunting by man.

"Warning issued

The Telegram (St. John's)

Mon 22 Jan 2007

Page: A1

Section: Front

Byline: Rosie Gillingham

If sealers continue to harvest at the same rates over the next few years, it could spell trouble for the herd population, according to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans' leading marine mammal scientist.

Dr. Garry Stenson said the combination of high mortality and low reproduction rates has caused the seal population to drop by almost half a million - from 5.8 million to 5.4 million over the last several years.

Those numbers will continue to decline, he said, if the catches remain the same, forcing it to a point where it could be an environmental concern in the very near future.

"It means if we continue to take (the current quota of) 325,000 seals (each year), what we're predicting is that we've got two, maybe three, years before it becomes a conservation concern," he said."

Answer 11

What ignorance there is shown here, people still think Global Warming isn't happening, i guess these people still think the world is flat and that man didn't land on the moon.

Answer 12

The problems this marine mammal faces is pollution(PCB's), which effects stature and breeding. Also it's range of territory exceeds more then just one country. The harvesting restrictions vary from each. People using this as an icon for GW are truly misleading the public. Yes their hunting has been shorten by ~ 3 wks due to past climate factors, but they cope with this. Some instances have proved to be beneficial. That is they have been able to prey on whales trapped in unfrozen pockets of ice.

Answer 13

this is a picture of a polar bear struggling to find land to rest.

http://z.about.com/d/uspolitics/1/0/d/C/...

Answer 14

You'll find these non-existent pictures next to pictures of "rapidly melting ice caps!"  But that may require CGI, too.

dianed33: Uh, that's ice that's been carved out by the ocean's waves and the polar bears are not drowning.

Answer 15

well you can pause a scene in an inconvenient truth by al gore a scene there where in a polar bear was trying to climb a piece of ice. alt+print screen walah! a picture

Answer 16

This one isn't drowning, but you could claim it is:

http://blog.newsok.com/gogreen/files/200...

Answer 17

They actually don't drown, mostly.  They need ice to hunt from, not to stand on.  

So they starve to death.  If a mother with cubs starves, the cubs starve too because she was feeding them.

This is MUCH uglier than people think.

Answer 18

The shrinking Arctic sea ice doesn't cause Polar Bears to drown (generally), it shortens their prime hunting season.  That in turn prevents them from putting on much needed weight for the long winter and decreases the chance of their reproducing.

Despite the doubters inability to understand something as "complex" as Less Ice => Shorter Hunting Season => Skinnier Bears => Less Reproduction => Declining Bear population, global warming is considered a serious threat to polar bear populations by scientists who actually study them and their environment.  Of course, the doubters don't need any scientists or evidence to know they are right, because they believe in Plato's view of knowledge.

According to the USGS:

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/special/pol...

"Projected changes in future sea ice conditions, if realized, will result in loss of approximately 2/3 of the world’s current polar bear population by the mid 21st century. Because the observed trajectory of Arctic sea ice decline appears to be underestimated by currently available models, this assessment of future polar bear status may be conservative."

Answer 19

Thanks I needed a laugh today.

Polar bears drowning, that is great. Polar bears starving that is a great one as well.

Get a clue people, there are more today than there were 20 years ago during the Global Cooling scare of the 70's.

Answer 20

Ironically,  the sheep is right the majority of global warming is being caused by natural cycles.  And I did my own independent studies based on the "little ice age" .

Answer 21

If you want to advise people on global warming, how about stop lying about it. The more you peopl lie, the more the intelligent people will blow you off.

Polar bears have doubled in population since 1974 and quadrupled since the 50's. 75 % of them live in Canada, not Alaska...so much for your whining about drilling in ANWR.

And if one polar bear drowns....excuse me....that isn't linked to global warming.....bears can swim. Remember that little thing they might have brought up in nature class in high school ? or were you sleeping ? Called survival of the fitest ?

Don't talk about something you do'nt know about.

Answer 22

The polar bears are starving to death, because their method of obtaining food...mainly seals...has been disrupted by the melting of the glaciers in the polar region.  

The reasons for the melting ice have caused a great disruption in American life. For some inexplicable reason, Republicans have scoffed at the opinions of a majority of scientists, searched out the few dissenters, and repeat their conclusions as though it is exact science, which in either case it is not.  

This was caused by a Republican antipathy toward Al Gore, a liberal candidate who undoubtedly deserved the Presidency, who has taken up the Global Warming cause and acts as their spokeman, raising awareness of their beliefs.  Politics has reared its ugly head in the Global Warming argument, with Conservatives using such shaky facts as "I have never seen a dead polar bear" or the size of Al Gore's electric bill to dispute what a majority of scientists believe is true. Even George Bush has spoken of the plight of the polar bear and their diminishing numbers.

In my opinion, it doesn't matter which theory you have selected for your belief, because greenhouse gases certainly need attention.  If you do not believe the amount of carbon emissions can affect atmosphere, drive through Atlanta or any other American city at rush hour.  The odorous, carbon-laden smog makes breathing nigh impossible, and these fumes dissipate into our atmosphere.

Either way, attention needs to be paid in finding Alternative Fuels, something cleaner and less destructive to the human race. Since we can all agree on that, even Rush Limbaugh might concede that this is sensible, the argument on the causes of Global Warming is moot.

Answer 23

How would a picture make a distinction between a drowned or a starved polar bear?

The Inuit remark that they are seeing far fewer seals, and far fewer fish in arctic waters.

When we are seeing polar bears die from either want of ice or want of food, do we have a way to distinguish?

True, if the problem is that they are having to swim long distances to get to an ice floe, and that is causing starvation, it becomes a moot point. But if the whole problem is that there are too few seals, too few fish to feed them, does that change the picture? How do we distinguish it?

Answer 24

I hope you have noticed all the pictures of the polar bears are jut pictures of polar bears.  They are not stranded or dying, it's how you manipulate your information to make people think they are drowning or stranded. A bear on ice is not stranded, it is resting or playing, it will just jump off when it is ready and swim again. the one with the mom and baby is the one Al Gore used in his movie.  the funny part is the photographer that took the picture knew they were playing, but Gore used it with someone else's permission.  The bear coming out of the water is only that, a bear coming out of the water.  Unfortunately for their cause the AGW crowd and media uses as much propaganda and misinformation as any military war effort. it's a shame they corrupt science in this a way. I hope you can learn something from this experience.

Answer 25

You'll have to photoshop one.  Use the examples from the movie "Incomplete Truth" by Algore.  There he had to use animated polar bears because the population of these critters is actually increasing and healthy.

Answer 26

You will have to catch one polar bear drown it and then make a picture. Good luck! I’ve never seen drowned polar bear. On another hand you can write Al Gore and ask him to send you a picture. I’ve heard he did drown couple of bears already for his movie (or may be he just used Adobe Photoshop, then you can do that too).

Answer 27

Polar bears aren't going to drown from global warming. They're going to starve. Their bodies will be eaten  by other starving polar bears, so you won't see any pictures.

Answer 28

You could use something like this.  It appears there is a petition that you could sign and try to get others to sign as well.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiramisuadd...

Or this one:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2109/2403...

By the way, since the Arctic ice hasn't melted completely yet, I don't think they actually are drowning.  But certainly they will be losing their habitat if global warming continues.

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Has anyone been asking questions in the GW category in the last 12 hours?  It seems the front page isn't refreshing properly.  Maybe everyone could link their GW questions here.

Answer 29

There are more polar bears today than 25 years ago!  

Environmental groups have been known to kill polar bears for photo ops.   Also, environmental groups try to sabotage oil pipelines just to show the world how an oil spill would look like!

Contact your nearest environmental group and they will sell you some photos of dead polar bears.  

Global Warming is nothing new - in the past billion years Earth has probably had a million Global Warmings before!  What is new is blaming human beings for this particular NORMAL cycle of climate change!  

By the way, you do know that we have had warmer periods in our recent past - the Middle Ages were warmer than it is today - and the polar bears survived!  There are even today half brown bear and half polar bear mixes which means they can adapt!

(Melting glaciers in Europe show that in our past civilization  villages were where glaciers are today, they were built back when the climate was warmer;  ice from an ice age later covered those villages up.  Perhaps the warmer temperatures from our present cycle of "Global Warming" is more normal than a cooler temp!   Warmer weather means a longer growing season too!)  

Hmmmm!

Answer 30

ALL the polar bears are drowning. RIGHT NOW! due to evil hum-..err

AMERICANS da. evil american middle class families!

find a polar bear NOW and it will be drowning, but you will have to get the EVIL AMERICAN middleclass family to drive their suv off its poor white furry back to get a good picture.

Answer 31

Polar bears rarely drown, and when they do it's usually because of a storm or other natural thing.  Unlike any other kind of bear, they are about equally at home in the water or on the land.  Their 'hairs' are actually not hair as other bears have, but are air-filled flotation devices that also serve to keep them warm in intense cold.  Great swimmers (they swim faster than any human) they can be seen hundreds of miles from shore at times, and have been as far south as the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which is a long way to swim.  Their normal most southerly range is about mid-Labrador on the Atlantic coast.  They're also found in Alaska, Norway and Greenland, mainly along the coastline.

Known as the worlds largest carnivore, they are also one of the fastest.  They're really interesting creatures, and in spite of what some people say they are in no danger of extinction.

I don't know if you'll have any luck finding a pic of a drowned one or not.  I have been in their territory and have never seen one that had drowned.  Their fur is very thick, and when they come out of the water they look quite thin actually.  The fur also isn't really white, it's more light bluish but natural sunlight makes it look white.