Polar bear's epic nine day swim in search of sea ice

Polar bears are saved! All they have to do is trek down to Chicago Beach.

Good points and research. Should earn you negative votes. The villagers just love to light those torches. Reminds me of God and Noah "How long can you tread water, Noah?" Then again, what is a normal swim for a polar bear? And is this a new worlds record? And can we generalize from an single observation? Sorta like correlating the sale of ice cream with murders. There is a correlation. Just not cause and effect.

It would appear many animals chose to swim & not Noah's ark

Nice one IceKat!

It reminds me of the article that was run last year on all the mainstream outlets of a with photos of a male polar bear with a dismembered cub's head in it's mouth.

The article screamed "POLAR BEARS RESORT TO CANNABALISM", possibly due to climate change/and or global warming of course (ie: you and I are causing this to happen).

Oh dear the photos were something gruesome, but what the article didn't say was that this is common behaviour of male predators; to kill the cubs so that there will be less competition for food and also to that the female will be ready to mate more quickly.

Just like you pointed out, it's not so much what they say, it's how they report what they say, and more importantly it's what they don't report.

Nine days without a drink of water sounds very epic; not an easy task especially while swimming the whole time.

"...and more importantly it's what they don't report." exactly right, it's bias by omission.

People read between the lines; polar bear + ice + climate change = "oh, this must be bad, really bad". People are indoctrinated into believing that the Arctic is melting. It is, and does at regular intervals and varying amounts, but it is not the downward spiral people are led to believe. The ice will 'recover', probably sooner than most people think.
Thanks for your comment.

Do you think Greenland's ice is going to recover as well? Sooner being 10 years, 100 years? Most Americans or most of the rest of the world? Climate change is looking pretty fucked up from what I see and hear reported about record heat and cold and rain and snow. These new sweetheart storms that drop a month of normal rain in just days seem to state that major change is in the works.

Are you saying that humans have no affect on the climate so don't trouble our little heads? When I was a kid, in the seventies, the Ice in the north pole was impenetrable. Now not so much. Maybe the earths core is the problem, or the sun?

I agree. But there is no evidence that suggests this is a unique event. The animal did lose body weight during it's trip which does indicate a traumatic period, but not all wild animals have the luxury of a regular meal and losing body weight is not unheard of.

Polar bears eat the blubbery, fat parts of seals, and little protein. Their water comes from the process of breaking down the fat - they don't need to drink from pools of water like some other animals do.
To say the bear was swimming all that time may be misleading too. There was no mention of currents and how far the bear may have drifted.

You mean polar bears just float? They don't sink when they quit swimming? Now I may buy that they don't need water, but ................

Actually yes, polar bears float pretty well, better than you or I would, because of the layers of blubber they have. Again, I'm not saying this polar bear's epic journey was a walk in the park, but it may not be all that unusual.

"Are you saying that humans have no affect on the climate so don't trouble our little heads? "

Absolutely not, humans do have an impact on the climate in many ways.
I'm not concerned about Greenland, it isn't about to turn into a green and pleasant land whilst flooding the rest of the world - you'll see.

--------" Why do so many people just see what they want to see in an article?"------

Despite all your blathering about the earth cooling, and temperatures being lower than normal for this 7 day period, or that 2 min. period blah blah blah-------

What I see is an article about about a polar bear that had to swim nearly 500 miles to reach ice floes that are it's normal habitat and lost it's cub in the process.

Polar bears are dying. And all you care about is your stupid greed and ego.

What I see in this article is that you are lying to people----and the article is proof.

I hope you are happy Dr. DoNothing.

It is all about ego with you----you just HAVE to make everyone agree with you no matter what the cost. Well, here is the cost.

This is not about making the whole human race feel guilty-----this is about a few people who SHOULD feel guilty-----but have no conscience at all. People like you.

I'd say that your avatar is an accurate reflection of your care and concern.

You chose it, not me.

yes.

Good for you, old man. Getting that off your chest probably did you the world of good.
But just because you're sucked in by an article that doesn't quite tell things as they were, it doesn't mean everyone else is, or that those who are more intelligent than you are greedy, in the pay of someone, or egotistical.
Polar bears are dying, but not at the rate the scaremongers like Greenpeace and the WWF want you to believe. If one of those organisations were to tell people Polar bears are not in danger just imagine the money they'd lose. Oh but only "deniers" are in this for the money, aren't they? Wake up man!!!

@ IceKat-----

There is no mystery at all why you would ascribe the motivations of everyone else to conceit, arrogance and greed----it is all you know, therefore, so far as you would know---there can be no other motivations.

It seems to me, that the more you talk, the less you have to say.

You are totally in love with yourself.

Well, you do seem to be totally uneducated on this subject.

And it isn't "ONE polar bear," either. Perhaps if you read or watched news that's authentic, you'd be able to quickly learn -- and hopefully even FEEL -- how devastating this all is, not only for our endangered polar bears, but for all the other hundreds (possibly thousands) of endangered or soon-to-be species.

And, pretty soon, we can add "human being" to that endangered list, unless everyone starts learning, then doing something ABOUT, these true horrors.

There you go asking those unpopular questions again and upsetting the group think. Naughty, naughty.

The scientific community seems to have reached a consensus => that believes when species die other species fill in their emptied place. So, if you want to convince the population that Evolution is Real one great way to do that is to kill off some species FORCING others to fill in.

Your compassion does not trump their agenda. You can cry alone or we could all join you in a nationwide group cry but neither will stop the ball from reaching the pins.

What Darwin started has reached a natural conclusion.

It's pretty obvious that you have never read Darwin.

I'm in the majority then and the majority rules => so you're out drifting in meaningless space shouting I read it, I read it, listen to me, I read it, and no one hears you but your insignificant minority of despised perfectionists (aka knitpickers)

That's absurd and so are you. Nothing you said means anything.

That is the STUPIDEST thing I have yet read on Current.

I am..... The Recordholder. Do a mean Butter Churn too. Sometimes the outrageouser is also the honester. But one must beware of people who invent new words.

I use the same 26 letters you use. Nouns & Verbs too! You have a need of being alphabet challenged so God has provided me to you for that.

Wait til you get my bill buddy-ro. Get the hankies ready.

I would normally laugh at this if it weren't so fucking serious.
Does anyone realize how serious this really is?

George Walker Bush the nation's Oil Company Paramour and criminal put that poor bear there. The alcohol damage brain scarring Bush inflicted on himself has spread like a cancer over this planet.

How many voted for Bush are his accomplices.

Pass. The bullet ball was not meant for you.

My apologies, but I simply cannot find anything -- ANYTHING -- funny about this.

Tanning Bed Polar Bear Floats Incorporated! They'll need steps on the side to get out of the pool. Have to be heavily weighted also. Make the suckers a tenth of a mile square or not at all. You could easily achieve that by making them as smaller interlocking blocks (for transport to locution area).

Instead of putting bears in zoos take the zoo to the bears!

Just looking to eat a baby seal or two. Who speaks for the baby seals? And a few more bars of the "circle of life."

The animals know how to treat the planet, as opposed to humans.

I see nothing here about devaluing life, but just the opposite.

The whole problem here is that we homo sapiens believe that we are the most important life form in the universe.

There is no "animals and us", whatever arbitrary value you want to put on things, humans ARE just another animal form of life.

Animals know how to treat the planet? WTF?
I'm sensing a bit of delusional idealism here. The primary genetic drive of all life seems to be dominance and expansion.
You can see that with ANY species that is no longer confined by natural barriers and limits that they can't overcome: All the so-called "weed" and "pest" species.

Any life form that gets the chance will use up as much resources as it is able to. Humans are no different to any other form of life in that respect.

-Hopefully we'll use our vaunted "intelligence" to put limits on our primitive, purely "natural" drive to use everything up.

Yes, animals know how to treat the planet. They don't destroy in their greed to get more money to get more things to be "better" than their neighbor. They operate on instinct and survival. They were here before we were, and I suspect they'll be here after we're gone; unless we manage to obliterate the earth.

Unfortunately, I have yet to see much in the way of evidence that the humans with the power have any intention to even attempt to put limits on our destructive ways.

Ever see a polar bear chomp down on a baby seal? Animals know very little about "how to treat the planet". Humans otta know, but, for all intents and purposes, we tend to be little more than talking monkeys. But we love ourselves to death.

And that fallacy has and will continue to cost us dearly.

Caught that one too, did you?

Lots of fallacies in this last myopic rant. See if you can spot them?

let's see.....instinct and survival....hmmmmm.......may I suggest a visit to a dictionary? But, just keep on not understanding. Nature works its way. A polar bear chomps down on a baby seal to feed itself for survival - humans beat down on a baby seal for profit. A bit of a difference. So I suppose the comment about "loving ourselves to death" is very prophetic.

Prophetic Telcod, yes; also Greedy => muscling in on my action.

It would appear all other Cultures and Races on Planet Dirt know how to do stuff the Hey Yank! Americans do not. Native American Indians treat the planet supremely well, now the Japanese know how to build Polar Bear islands that reflect sunlight at the same time!

Brazilians, Venezuelans and probably THEIR TWO YEAR OLDS make better car fuels. Russians make mutually wonderful agreements with the Chinese while we hand them the keys to the car no questions asked.

Americans are being made to feel like [look like a duck] a nation of retards before the entire Global Community. Anger is being fomented towards some kind of mob action revolution? Naw. We could never do that right either so it must be simple mob action. They'll have us all wrestling on the ground ripping each other's throats out like a wolf fight over the female soon.

Yes.

U.S. citizens... world citizens... there's no difference between the human species and all the other species, and unless people start publicly crying out loud, and making demands, there's little sign of positive change, much less help... or hope.

The hell are you talking about? Homeless, hungry, freezing Americans and Europeans?
We're a fucking first world country and in the case of Europe, continent.

There's no "buzz" to kill here. The point of the polar bear story is that it's the canary in the coalmine.
The fact that the bears have to travel so far for food and land means that the area of the icecaps are in serious decline and this will continue to affect animal life all down the line. This is just the very beginnings of the problem.

Humans are next, as you yourself note: Northern hemisphere winters are already a lot more icy due to all that freed up cold seawater flowing down from the north.

And, better yet, let's just do away with having polar bears in zoos.

And, better yet, let's just do away with having zoos.

NOPE. Can't. We're also in a Zoo. Our Zoo is here to stay. So if we keep OUR ZOO we have to keep polar bears in a separate zoo too =>> that's just how it works.

You say potato and I say tomato. You're the man.

Then you're the woman.

..... Makes as much sense as the rest of what you've written today.

hahahaha Actually men are women and women are men, physiologically both having the same sex hormones. Just in different quantities.

Because our diets have been made to force women to grow larger breasts ~for the Elite to pick from like juicy fruit from their own private breast orchard~ the rest of the women have had their hormone balance thrown badly off. Without enough testosterone to build spine-supporting muscles they have some awesome bad spinal deformity being done to them.

Perhaps that makes sense for you. My other posts all make sense too, that's why you keep reading them. You know I'm holding answers. And you want em.

Keep knocking on the door. Demand answers. Jesus will give them up. He did to me and I'm no more special than you are. What I have belongs also to you.

In the Bible the offer is tabled => Come, drink life's water free.

You're totally off-topic, and it's a grave distraction, as I'm sure others will quickly agree.

You referred to me as a man. I am not a man. Don't make ASSumptions.

Enough said.

Isn't it unbelievably tragic that we even have to THINK in such terms?! I'm sickened by human greed and apathy.

Ahh, now we're GETTING SOMEWHERE. They have saved the Polar Bear sperm but, just as importantly they haven't saved YOUR SPERM.

When they leave they take their sperm with em. You remain.

They're the slick, shiny, super-smart porpoises.

You fed them great fish.

Interesting idea. Careful it doesn't cause more pollution in such a sensitive area... but it is interesting.
And it's "in like Flynn" after the Hollywood star who had a lot of sex...
By saying "in like flint" you're basically saying "throw them in the water like stones".

I'm WRONG? Wow. I'll have to tell that to James Coburn, you know, the old fogie who made the movie "In Like Flint". hahaha Gee, I'm wrong. Whew. Where's my box a Kleenex?

That being said yes, you are very correct about not causing pollution even with good answers. The fake ice material would need to have a Reverse Gear. A key that turns it off once the Earth was fixed.

You not wrong --just clueless. Nothing you have said means anything. You just take a word from column A and pair it up with a word from column B, stir it up with words from Column C. The asylums are brimming over with lots of folk who do the same thing.

I do cross platform diving. It's a gift. You stay within columns eh? Columns are like horse blinders. I don't like blinders so here, you can have mine. They are un-used.

And what has convinced you that I give a shit?

You cared about telling me I belong in an asylum. That was a good and caring deed. You show promise. Deeds and thoughfulness towards others is highly regarded at Revelation 3 vs 2.

Yawn....again nothing you have said is either relevant or meaningless. Do us a favor and check in somewhere.

Read your post 3, 4 or 15 times. You'll get it. I have high hopes your intellect will kick in with repetition. A hint => kicking out the drugs might help. That includes cigarettes.

Seriously.

What? I guarantee in the next few years Disney and/or Dream Works will exploit this and make an animated movie to pull on hearts stings and wallets.

Metaphorically, yes.

Destroying the planet is giving mankind the Hate Energy it needed to go on to new & great inventions. Had we not polluted the waters as we have would we now have REVERSE OSMOSIS water filtering systems?

If we hadn't 3/4 destroyed this planet where would the impetus come from for building Hubble telescopes and such to search us out another planet?

What's been done, had to be done. The longer our collective necks stay on the guillotine looking UP at the big blade the more & better inventions we get. Were we to wait for inventions to naturally occur it would be a THOUSAND YEARS for new inventions to amble along and fall on Newton's head.

The Polar bear bacon is toast but it is for a great purpose. US.