a picture worth a thousand words
THEY cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice floe, their fragile grip the perfect symbol of the tragedy of global warming.
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THEY cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice floe, their fragile grip the perfect symbol of the tragedy of global warming.
With those words, the Daily Telegraph turned a photograph of two bears into an icon of man-made climate change.
Spiked puts Telegraph’s story in a different perspective.
The student who took the photograph, however, gives a slightly different account: ‘They were on the ice when we found them and on the ice when we left. They were healthy, fat and seemed comfortable on their iceberg.’Amanda Byrd, an Australian graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), says she took the picture around three years ago - in the summer. The photograph was not ‘taken by environmentalists’ but as part of a field trip with the university.
Gee, could the ice have been melting because it was summer? That picture is a perfect symbol of the farce tragedy of global warming.
Posted on March 17th, 2007 by pwyll
Filed under: eco-catastrophe
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Nice contrast of polar white and food-creature red ; )
I myself have recently hopped off the global warming alarmism bandwagon. To my shame, I had unwittingly climbed into Al Gore’s globally-warmed bed before researching all the facts, both pro and anti sided. To make up for it, I’ve made blogging the REAL inconvenient truth about global warming not being armageddonic one of my campaigns.
Michael Chrichton’s novel State of Fear woke me up to the facts behind global warming scaremongering. How about you?
I like the expression on the bear on the left, the one with the bloodstains on its side. It looks like it’s smiling for the camera.