"Last March, global warming fanatic Al Gore used a picture of two polar bears purportedly stranded on melting ice off the coast of Alaska as a visual aide to support his claim that man-made global warming is doing great harm to Mother Earth. The one he chose, but didn’t offer to pay for right away, turned out to be a photo of a polar bear and her cub out doing what healthy, happy polar bears do on a wave-eroded chunk of ice not all that far from shore in the Beaufort Sea north of Barstow, Alaska.
The picture, wrongly credited to Dan Crosbie, an ice observer specialist for the Canadian Ice Service, was actually taken by Amanda Byrd while she was on a university-related research cruise in August of 2004, a time of year when the fringe of the Arctic ice cap normally melts. Byrd, a marine biology grad student at the time, was gathering zooplankton for a multi-year study of the Arctic Ocean."
Crosbie, who was also on the trip, pilfered the polar bear photo from a shared computer onboard the Canadian icebreaker where Ms. Byrd downloaded her snapshots; he saved it in his personal file. Several months later, Crosbie, who is known as an avid photographer, gave the photo to the Canadian Ice Service, which then allowed Environment Canada to use it as an illustration for an online magazine.
Today that photo, with credit given to photographer Dan Crosbie and the Canadian Ice Service, can be found all over the Internet, generally with the caption “Two polar bears are stranded on a chunk of melting ice”.
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What no one seems to notice is that the two polar bears are not on a raft of melting pack ice as the climatistas would have you believe but rather on a melting iceberg. Why is that important? Well it is the fate of all icebergs to melt. They break off glaciers, drift away and melt. They've been doing that since the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago. In other words the photo of the polar bears on a melting iceberg could have been taken anytime in the last 12,000 years. It is not a phenomenon that could have only taken place since the current global warming began.
In case there is any doubt that the bears are standing on an iceberg, look at the embedded dirt in the ice underfoot the uppermost bear. Icebergs frequently have dirt and rocks embedded in them, which is not surprising because they are formed on land. Floating pack ice does not.
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