'Soul-crushing' video of starving polar bear goes viral

Disingenous and manipulative drivel designed to tug at the heart strings of emotional retards who never bother to fact check.

There is not one shred of evidence to suggest this bear is starving due climate change. You can speak to any climate scientist, even the most ardent proponents of anthropogenic climate change, and they will still tell you they are not sure what effect a long term, gradual decrease in Arctic ice will have on polar bears, and we wont see any noticeable effects for many, many decades yet.

I will also point out that Arctic ice levels fluctuate significantly through the course of a year naturally. In summer months, the volume of ice can reduce by up to 50%, so polar bears are already well adapted and capable of dealing with radical changes in their environments. Melting ice is no big deal for a polar bear, they are phenomenal swimmers, capable of swimming literally hundreds of miles in search of new solid ground.

In all likeliness, this is just an old, sick or injured bear that is no longer capable of hunting. This is the primary cause of death for most predators on Earth. It's not nice to see, but that's nature I'm afraid, it's a harsh and cruel mistress.

Don't believe everything you're told. I remember seeing something about this a while back and they said that this happens naturally in the wild and would happen even if humans didn't exist, though of course, over fishing and global warming has increased the likelihood of this happening. It's a situation of natural selection and very few times do polar bears get a catch, so it may simply be an unsuccessful hunter and became so weak from being malnourished that it was unable to hunt further. Or it could have an illness.
There is no evidence that the polar bear has become this way, directly because of humans. It can be a number of things and of course, people who are trying to protect the planet and these animals (I totally support them too) will use this to get their message across and it has worked. I don't believe this is the first or last predator to die from starvation.

“I don’t know why that bear is all skinny and raggedy- ergo it *must* be the fault of humans”

That’s science right there.

You're a trumptard too arent you?

Not one shred of evidence... bar the fact that it's had to go in land to find food due to its own eco-system being destroyed.


It always surprises me, the lengths some people go to deny climate change is either real or caused by human activity when the overwhelming evidence points to the fact that it is.

The sheer paranoia that some people have, who seem to think global warming is this liberal-elitist conspiracy, is really quite strange. The ice caps are melting, the global temperature is rising. They're undeniable facts. Polar bear numbers are dwindling and due to the ice melting, their eco-systems are being destroyed.

You may as well be arguing that gravity doesn't exist or that the earth is still flat.

As for 'no noticeable effects', you mean how the population of polar bears is decreasing and is projected to decreased by another 30% in the next few decades?

Yes, nothing wrong with their homes being melted away

You climat change denying retards really amaze me. Learn some science, educate yourself about the difference between weather and climate and do some research instead of being spewing crap on this site you uneducated degenerative old ****.

I mean, there is undeniable scientific evidence that human activity is causing climate change and that climate change is causing the ice caps to melt and the eco-systems of such creatures are being destroyed as a result. There is also clear proof that their number is dwindling and projected to reduce much further.

I don't really know on what grounds people seem to think that global warming isn't happening. It seems that people have decided its inconvenient for them and therefore the easiest response is to just flat out deny it.

Yes you're right the climate does change over thousands of years.There are well known cycles called milankovitch cycles.However the climate is changing much faster than that.Climate change doesn't happen in a couple of centuries.It happens naturally over millennia.So why is this climate change happening over a period of decades? Why do you use science to tell you about the climate thousands of years ago yet not trust it when those very same scientific methods are employed to tell you about the climate today?

I'm not denying climate change in modern times but rather using it to show the adaptability of polar bears.

I'm not denying climate change in modern times but rather using it to show the adaptability of polar bears.

But there you go again - conflating two completely seperate things.

The debate you've been having with the polar bear afficionado here is that he is saying that there is no evidence to link a skinny polar bear with global warming.

Your reply is to claim that people are denying global warming.

These are not in any way the same thing - and part of the reason why the new politics is so contaminated. The idea that a video or social media post is posted ergo is true.

The point is that you don't know why that polar bear is skinny, but you're trying to cover that with a totally seperate issue.

Where did I deny climate change?

It is undeniable that global warming is destroying the eco-systems of these creatures. It is quite literally, melting them.

Yet somehow, people still seem to be arguing that it's all a big conspiracy.