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Don't do it for me, do it for this poor guy! [pic]

dailymail.co.uk — Struggling against the waves, this polar bear faces almost certain death after becoming lost at sea in the Arctic.

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  • danielrichard, on 08/30/2008, -16/+46oh my gosh.
    • Dylson, on 08/30/2008, -2/+36Dun be so selfish. He is my gosh too.
      • nospinhere, on 08/31/2008, -1/+4This article must be true because it has a close up shot of a Polar Bear in water and it seems like his face is wet.
    • maven1000, on 08/31/2008, -17/+10Oh My Gosh is right. We are being brainwashed yet again. I though Diggers were sceptical of mainstream news. Isn't that the whole point of Digg?

      Ever notice that when the science of global warming is starting to crumble, we get pictures of polar bears everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if this is completely photoshopped.

      http://www.prisonplanet.com/arctic-ice-grows-30-pe ...

      I am in Australia and we've had the coldest winter in 10 years. If you are in the US you won't need to listen to this crap anymore because you'll feel that it is actually colder than it's been in a while.
      • drog, on 08/31/2008, -3/+13Diggers are skeptical about the mainstream media, but they tend to believe in science. It's interesting that you think the science of global climate change is starting to crumble, care to back that up with some peer reviewed literature for us?

        BTW global climate and regional weather are two different things....
      • maven1000, on 08/31/2008, -6/+9nasa satellite images credible enough for ya?

        http://www.prisonplanet.com/arctic-ice-grows-30-pe ...
      • icexe, on 08/31/2008, -2/+4Hello, Australia is not the only place on Earth. Even if a few places here and there experience colder than normal weather doesn't mean the overall global temperature isn't rising. There are lots and lots of independent scientific studies that have all come to the same conclusion that the average Earth temperature is the highest ever recorded.
      • maven1000, on 08/31/2008, -6/+9Polar bears definitely pull the heart strings more than satellite images.
      • noen, on 08/31/2008, -3/+5Prison Planet maven1000??? Alex Jones is certifiably insane. BTW, have you ever noticed how when things grow they also tend to spread out and get thinner? hmmmmm... food for thought.
      • spaceshipsix, on 08/31/2008, -1/+3Your scientific evidence (it's colder this year) is compelling maven1000 but you really don't know *****. And your reference to a paleoconservative unscientific website is pathetic. Year to year and regional temperatures are worthless data to look at alone. I think I heard the winter will be colder here in North America because of the El nino/La nina systems blah blah I can't remember. But the global warming argument is that it's slow and very hard to stop and reverse if it goes to far. It is an attempt to be cautious rather than ignore it like you choose to do.
    • geoffg, on 08/31/2008, -9/+5Oh my gosh...more anthropogenic global warming propaganda, I'm shocked!
      • ghostie, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2You heartless bastard!
      • geoffg, on 08/31/2008, -4/+1"You heartless bastard!"

        It's you anti-human environmentalists that are the heartless bastards. Millions around the world have died from malaria due to bans on DDT. Hospitals built in developing nations by 1st world nations have inadequate power because of "green" solar solutions hampering the ability to run the equipment that's critical for good health care.

        These and other imperialistic intrusions by "1st World" preachers of the green religion are no different then the Christian missionaries of old and the havoc they wrought.

        Good intentions are not the only ingredients necessary for a better tomorrow. Results and actions will always trump the shallowness of good intent, and give a good heart meaning.
    • wiitarded666, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2my day is ruined now
    • mV0G7, on 08/31/2008, -0/+5Sorry, but I would not swim 400 miles for a Klondike Bar
    • synthoid, on 08/31/2008, -3/+2Damn, that is depressing.

      *shoots self*
    • Shuukyoku, on 08/31/2008, -2/+4Sad, yeah, but that's really just the tip of the...well...you know.
      First go the big, impressive animals, then the die off trickles down into species that support lower rungs of the food-chain.
      Just think for a minute, where are we on the food chain? The top. But hell, the fall will probably kill 'ya.
    • Gbobrt4, on 08/31/2008, -1/+3Digg is rooting for you! /Dugg
  • GreenModernKits, on 08/30/2008, -11/+93Heartbreaking! Make sure to click through & read the article.
    • maven1000, on 08/31/2008, -14/+7A polar bear is always the best defense against science.

      http://www.prisonplanet.com/arctic-ice-grows-30-pe ...
    • badnewshotel, on 08/31/2008, -19/+5You do know that this is total *****, right? There are more polar bears now than 10 years ago, and there is not such thing as man made global warming. So, if the Earth is warming, and the polar bears can't survive, then how is that different that the rest of Earth's history?

      Please look up the term 'Darwinism' and think about it.
    • bluezinc, on 08/31/2008, -3/+11I apologize for the retarded comments of the two idiots above me who claim global warming is a conspiracy.
      • badnewshotel, on 08/31/2008, -14/+1Why are you apologizing? Are you the spokesperson for mankind?

        Listen, idiot, man made global warming is total crap and years from now when that is proven I'm going to track you down and I expect reparations!

        Until then, speak for yourself or shut your cake hole.
      • ghostie, on 08/31/2008, -2/+4I'd like to apologize for the moronic statement made by the idiot above me. Not all Americans have their heads too far up their own asses to accept credible, widely accepted scientific evidence.
      • davidlick, on 08/31/2008, -2/+1@badnewshotel: No need to be a dick.
        Regardless of who's right and wrong, I see a picture of a ***** polar bear in water... They aren't supposed to be there!
      • badnewshotel, on 08/31/2008, -2/+1daviddick - no, wrong, there is a need to be a dick. Because this whole global warming lie is out of hand and I'm not going to stand by. I see a close up of a polar bear in water. How do I know that isn't some zoo, or that the polar bear isn't just having fun? Oh, because the newspaper said so? Really? Polar bears swim all the time.

        So piss off you little gnat, I'm not going to shut up just because you feel and ghostie feel challenged.
      • ghostie, on 08/31/2008, -1/+1Well I'm glad you're so confident that global warming is a lie, badnewshotel. I guess you're a scientist? Perhaps you should publish your argument in a scientific journal. God knows we could use some good evidence against the existence of global warming. All these damned scientists are clearly spinning the facts about global warming for their own benefit.

        Tell me, what credentials do you have that outweigh the thousands of legitimate scientists who dedicate their lives to understanding these issues? Cuz you know what? Almost all of them believe man made global warming to be real. I'd love to hear your scientific background. Oh wait, Jesus told you it's not real? Never mind.
    • georgemason01, on 08/31/2008, -6/+5No thanks, I don't want to give your fake news site traffic.
    • LemmingJesus, on 08/31/2008, -3/+3Evolution at work.
      • bluezinc, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1??

        The polar bear doesn't have fins. This is just extinction at work. The polar bear cannot evolve within the decade to change with these circumstances.
      • Jashobeam5, on 09/14/2008, -0/+1Proof evolution could never have worked.
  • eKstreme, on 08/30/2008, -44/+406Don't worry, Sarah Palin thinks it's OK.

    Oh wait.
    • 2h3px, on 08/30/2008, -9/+115Psh, those things? There, its clearly just waving us over, saying "hey guys, drill here drill here!!!". They're not endangered they're just telling us we're doin' our job"
      • MrM4nager, on 08/30/2008, -1/+6Now we know where the oil is!
      • swicken, on 08/30/2008, -0/+17Ah yes, the Alaskan Poil Bear
      • ghostie, on 08/31/2008, -0/+4Sarah Palin drinks your milkshake. And the polar bear's too.
      • PEENkiller, on 08/31/2008, -4/+1Because the area that would be drilled would be the size of LAX airport and that would have dramatic effects on the environment........
      • TripcodeMel, on 08/31/2008, -3/+0Digg down all you like, but Peen's got it right. You even BEEN to the North Slope? Have you ever SEEN any of the oil refining facilities? The polar bears just wander around and on the things not giving a damn.
    • SouljaBoySTFU, on 08/30/2008, -39/+6Too early for Sarah bashing.


      Think about what we can do to save these polar bears instead of thinking about politics. :(
      • MrM4nager, on 08/30/2008, -2/+11Nope
      • Kamacurus, on 08/30/2008, -0/+5who is Sarah?
      • 2h3px, on 08/30/2008, -2/+17How 'bout ***** thinking about politics, and maybe, you know, realizing the two are intertwined, captain apathy. Or, you know we could just build giant floating oil rigs with alternitive energy nets that generate electricity with every passing polar bear? Now that's political comprimise!
      • mushoo, on 08/31/2008, -1/+5What we can do is not put someone in high office who thinks drowning polar bears is just fine and dandy.
      • theatheist, on 08/31/2008, -0/+4I am thinking about how to save them, not electing Sarah palin and that senile McCain to be the leaders of the most important country necessary to combat global warming.
      • SasaLukac, on 08/31/2008, -3/+1you all seem to be missing the point that souljaboystfu is correctly trying to make. even though Palin and the well being of the polar bears are intertwined, it doesn't mean that it's okay to bash her at this point. i despise McCain as much as the next digger, but that's just the problem, it's an opinion that's very widespread on this site. every situation in every post is somehow related back to an "i hate McCain" comment which gets an undeserving amount of diggs. so when you have a story as emotionally touching as the death of polar bears, why would anyone use EVEN THAT opportunity to jump on the McCain-bashing bandwagon? we get it, McCain blows, but Palin's idiotic opinion is just a hilariously tiny faction of the causes of this polar bear crisis.
    • jgome008, on 08/30/2008, -14/+86I bet she'd gain a new perspective if she was dropped off 400 miles at sea. Maybe Jesus would save her.
      • MrM4nager, on 08/30/2008, -3/+15Jesus saves. It's his M.O.
      • ostracize, on 08/31/2008, -0/+9Jesus saves. Rebound! Scores!
      • JBmtk, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2The FSM would not get involved...that is what you meant.
      • abajaj2280, on 08/31/2008, -2/+1I'm sure she could pregnant since swimming must also "tear up her guts".
      • wonderbyrd, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Jesus saves, but Moses invests.
    • JCPahl, on 08/30/2008, -25/+5Polar bears regularly swim hundreds of miles hunting; it has nothing to do with melting ice caps. The Daily Mail is being sensationalist yet again... big surprise.
      • dip42, on 08/30/2008, -0/+23Yea they swim miles to get food... but not 400.. and I don't see ANYTHING regularly swimming 400 miles to get food, because you know what.. They die BEFORE they even get CLOSE to that...
        If a dolphin can swim up to around 100 miles a day, imagine how a polar bear, that isn't as fast and built for water travel would do...

        But its OK, because it has NOTHING to do with the ice melting... Big surprise
      • 2h3px, on 08/31/2008, -1/+13I assume you learned this knowledge while hunting polar bears
      • sn0t, on 08/31/2008, -1/+10Actually if you did any research at all, or even half payed attention while watching BBC's Planet Earth, you would realize that the reason Polar Bears are swimming out to their deaths in the sea is EXACTLY because the ice caps are melting.

        Polar Bears are forced to hunt for food on increasingly thinning ice sheets, at increasingly further distances, often being forced to swim out farther and farther to new ice shelves and islands looking for food that was once present in their natural hunting area.

        David Attenborough actually says specifically in Planet Earth that seeing a Polar Bear out at sea even 40 years ago was virtually unheard of.

        They also specifically attribute this change (evolutionary or not) to the melting ice caps.
      • JCPahl, on 08/31/2008, -11/+3So I guess the ice just melted out from under him, then? How did he get 400 miles out to sea to begin with? Pfft, what's the use arguing with True Believers, anyway. Don't worry, Al Gore will save you.
    • ousthouse, on 08/30/2008, -14/+33Animals didn't die before republicans were in power.
      • worldchanger, on 08/31/2008, -0/+11blame it on dubya.
      • bluezinc, on 08/31/2008, -4/+12SHHHH!! We dare not speak of.... the before time. Our dark masters will punish us, PUNISH, US THEY WILL!!
      • TheSprunk, on 08/31/2008, -1/+0@bluezinc

        While not true (today), I dont imagine it will be long before it is (at least, if the proverbial ***** keeps going down the proverbial *****)
    • bdbr, on 08/31/2008, -6/+37Now, now, Sarah Palin probably wants that bear to make land as much as anyone. After all, you can't hunt bears when they're 400 miles out to sea.
      • LucerinRed, on 08/31/2008, -0/+29I beg to differ.

        ~Captain of the USS Bear Hunter
      • usaok2, on 08/31/2008, -2/+2Not true, she usually shoot wolves from helicopters, but maybe now she will do the same with bears.
    • soccaparker, on 08/31/2008, -0/+22Did anyone else find it ironic that the bears were found by oil surveyors?
      • Greg2k, on 08/31/2008, -1/+1Not me. Because I would expect people to be surveying for oil in Alaska and I would expect those people to see a bunch of polar bears in the water.
    • norman619, on 08/31/2008, -11/+3The polar bears aren't endangered. They aren't even threatened. This is according to the people who actually monitor their population not some sensationalistic rag in the UK which is the equivalent of the National Enquirer here in the US. As for the ice melt hurting the cute and cuddly bears, it's been warmer than it is today before and guess what? The polar bears survived just fine. These people are preying on your ignorance and gullibility. Do some ***** research.
    • Mahargi, on 08/31/2008, -18/+24This is just Alarmist propaganda. I work for the Ministry of Natural Resources in Ontario and the majority of the major polar bear populations in Canada have INCREASED dramatically in the last 20 years. Only 3 of the major populations have experienced a decline.

      http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1ea ...
      Significant quotes

      "...population of polar bears has jumped to 2,100 animals from around 800 in the mid-1980s."

      "The Inuit have always insisted the bears' demise was greatly exaggerated by scientists..."

      ""the Inuit were right. There aren't just a few more bears. There are a hell of a lot more bears."

      "Their widely portrayed lurch toward extinction on a steadily melting ice cap is not supported by bear counts in other Arctic regions either"

      "Canada, which claims roughly two thirds of the world's polar bear population."

      Al Gore lied to you. He needs a new animal to to be his poster child of global warming.
      • Thasanimos, on 08/31/2008, -3/+10I have no idea why you're being dugg down for this. It makes sense.
      • doublefelix, on 08/31/2008, -2/+13Um, this wasn't in Canada. These are bears that feed off seals on ice flows, which are melting at an alarming rate due to climate change. I imagine as this option is eliminated you're bound to see a higher density of polar bears in mainland Canada. I'm sure areas around communities and garbage dumps will be particularly popular.
      • TheSprunk, on 08/31/2008, -6/+2No, you're right it's a few hundred miles off the coast of Canada.

        But wait, that doesn't necessarily negate his point... does it?
    • howufinna, on 08/31/2008, -10/+1***** Polar Bears. No bear is going to make my car go from my house to my school. And stop acting like you people really give a ***** about some god damn bears. You can't have them as pets, you can't play with them, and if you're near one, they'll rip you into pieces. *****'em.
      • TheSprunk, on 08/31/2008, -3/+0Dugg up for honesty.
      • Jethdm, on 08/31/2008, -3/+0I agree, ***** em, and just to piss off the goddamned liberals who infest this obama ***** known as digg, I hope the ***** polar bears die, and their meat can feed hundreds of hungry children around the world. Hey there! We found a use for those pathetic fat ***** bears.
  • dudefaceguyman, on 08/30/2008, -62/+15While it sucks the Polar Bears are taking a turn for the worse. Is anyone surprised? NOT ME. I'm not even gonna wave the whole, "Blame humans! We're bad! FEH! Donate billions to save some endangered Chicken Weasels! They're more important then the millions of starving people in 3rd world countries and stuff!"

    Species go extinct. It's a part of life. Believe it or not, humans will go extinct someday. Life moves on, adapt or die. Unfortunately these Polar Bears aren't choosing to adapt, so. Well, I think you get my point. A shame though.
    • garg, on 08/30/2008, -7/+37Humans can go extinct in a month if bees disappear. At the rate corporations are destroying nature, life has no chance to adapt. Humans can't adapt that fast either. We aren't just trying to save chicken weasels, we're trying to save our own asses because we're going to follow soon after the other creatures die. Or are you going to personally pollinate all our vegetation?

      Why are polar bears important? They control the population of other creatures. If the fish start over populating then plankton and other organisms start getting under populated. When that happens, the fish populations will crash. You keep that up and soon it's our turn.
      • swicken, on 08/30/2008, -7/+2I think it would take more then one month if the bees dissapear.
        If anything we're pretty good at adapting the circumstances to match our needs, and our survival instincts are our only strong feature. We'd probably figure out a way to keep on ruining our planet for generations to come.
      • dstz, on 08/31/2008, -6/+2And two month for the bears. We should clearly save every drowning animal. Er, I mean, only cute mammals of course.
      • dudefaceguyman, on 08/31/2008, -5/+3Overpopulation of fish? Now I know fisherman up north have to cut down their quota due to overfishing wrecking ecosystems. So that'd just mean a whole bunch of new jobs for fisherman..

        Wait don't Polar Bears eat Seals? Hm. Then they'd get overpopulated and eat all the fish..

        I say we start having Seals in our daily diet. Mmmm BBQ Seals.
      • skyroket, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1We make spacefood in science labs! We're going to be here for awhile....unfortunately for Mother Earth.

        I'm not a hippy tree hugger, but I acknowledge humankind is a virus to this planet. The only thing I'm going to do is get cremated when I die so I don't contribute to the corpse overpopulation problem we'll have in 800 years. Other than that, ***** it.
    • diggproof, on 08/30/2008, -2/+19So I'll burn your house down. Hope you can adapt.
      Then I'll kidnap you and make you lose your job. Hope you can adapt.
      • diespectra, on 08/31/2008, -7/+3Humans != Polar Bears
      • diggproof, on 08/31/2008, -3/+9I was trying to drive home the point that the polar bears are not going extinct because of their own actions.
      • dudefaceguyman, on 08/31/2008, -8/+3If you burned down my house I'd move to a new one. I'd consider that adapting to the problem.

        If you attempted to kidnap me, good luck. I live near a police station and know dozens of cops as friends. I carry Pepperspray and a Cellphone with GPS. You'd be royally ***** if you tried anything and wouldn't get far. I'd consider that adapting to the problem too..


        I'm not as stupid as a Bear. (No offense to Bears, they can't help it.) Those tactics won't work on me.
      • Kakemonstere, on 08/31/2008, -4/+4How do you adapt to a bullet through your brain?
      • dudefaceguyman, on 08/31/2008, -2/+1Then the predator has won and my species will fight back and protect themselves until that predator is gone or unfortunately we are. Happens all the time in the wild. If species can't live with another currently they'll either adapt somehow, live somewhere else, or die out. Life isn't always fair. Survival of the fittest.



        Come on you guys! I know there's a better argument then the same ol' garble every Peta-Goat-Humper moron cries about. I believe in you!
      • swicken, on 08/31/2008, -1/+1In this case dude, it's survival of whoever is on the southern most ice flow.
        I think their point is the polar bears have no means to stop the degredation of their habitat, whether the cause is natural or not.
        Survival of the fittest only really applies to people anyway. When you start looking at adverse situations such as this the creatures have no way of knowing what is in store for them. I'm sure they'd move more south and start eating something else if they knew any better. Unfortunately they're dumb beasts and they go north when it freezes and south when it thaws only south is a way longer swim then it once was. They can't ignore their instincts.

        It's possible that the loss of ice is a natural occurance, that the ice flows up there is meant to get more sparse and species that live there will move south or die. However there is also a chance that the change is our fault, that somehow we're responsible. Until we know for certain we should try to preserve the species, if we find its a natural occurence then let them drown. If it isn't then fix our mistakes.
      • dudefaceguyman, on 08/31/2008, -1/+1Yes, and it's a shame they don't know any better. But nature isn't kind in that regard. The ones that stay will prosper fine, the ones that follow their instinct won't. Perfect example of Natural Selection. We may disagree on the fact Polar Bears are worth saving, but I don't mind people with different opinions then me. At least you aren't being a child and simply tossing insults like the others.


        As I suggested in another comment. While I disagree with all the money being spent on this. If you got the dough, at least do it right. I've seen some documentaries on training Tigers born in captivity to live in a completely new habitat and hunt Deer. I'm sure they could do something similar for Polar Bears. Trucking them from ocean to shore every year is a waste of time and money.

        I know in the Zoo's they have Polar Bears eating fish. They don't do that in the wild. EVER. Move them to some cold place around some lakes or something to live. BAM problem solved. Now let's stop bitching about the goddamn Polar Bears. Sheebus.
      • infiniphunk, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2@dudefaceguyman,
        Wow, if one thing comes through clear in your posts, it's that you're the type of guy who only really cares about himself, and to hell with others. You seem to feel justified in not feeling sorry for the polar bears, because as you observe, they are not smart enough to just move to somewhere else, as you would so obviously do if someone (burnt your house down), to go with the example of the post you replied to.
        Nobody here is questioning that nature is indeed a cruel mother, and that so many things happen which bring about the untimely ends of many species. It's natural selection. Only the strong survive. But that's not the point of this story. Perhaps you missed that entirely.
        The polar bear are just one example of animals whose natural habitat has been destroyed by the onslought of humanity. The list of species that have gone the way of the dodo because of humanity's greed and self-importance is long indeed. Look at the sad face of the polar bear. It's almost like he's asking us, "was it worth all of it?" Look around you, are you happy with the way the world is right now? Do you see more good or more bad?
        Maybe someone who has the convenience of running to another house when one burns down (and who does that remind you of?) might be living in circumstances to look around themselves and go, "yeah, the world is a wonderful place. There are far more good things than bad!". The reality, that it is not this way for many. The polar bear is there to remind us, we've ***** UP!
      • dudefaceguyman, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Claiming I care only about myself is complete *****. I stand by my opinion, there is NOTHING wrong with that. In fact, I'd say you guys are worse. Ya guys are nearly crapping your pants that someone here isn't saying, "omg the polar bear is so cute ***** humans, we're evil, horrible, people! I'm gonna go cut myself. Maybe that will help."

        I also gave the guy kudos in my comment even though we don't see eye to eye:
        "We may disagree on the fact Polar Bears are worth saving, but I don't mind people with different opinions then me. At least you aren't being a child and simply tossing insults like the others." It's the people who are being idiots I'm ignoring.

        "Look at the sad face of the polar bear. It's almost like he's asking us, "was it worth all of it?" Look around you, are you happy with the way the world is right now? Do you see more good or more bad?"

        Wanna play the sob story game? Fine. ***** it:

        "Look at the sad face of this young boy in a third world country. His family never gets clean water, the little the eat is so bad the calcium in their bones cause them to be extremely brittle. Half of them have severe scoliosis or bloated stomachs. They're lucky to live to adulthod. Tell him to his face, "I'd donate money to prevent you starving from hunger...But, I think it's more important I help save this Polar Bear that tends to swim far out in the ocean every year. So we have to tow him back to shore in a large boat that costs a lotta money...Sorry kid."

        Don't try and make this a pity fest. Like I'm a robot or something. I just think there's more important things in the world then goddamn polar bears.
      • dudefaceguyman, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Edit:: Crap replied to so many comments I'm starting to make a few typos and forgetting to edit them before the time is up. Blah
      • Portagine, on 08/31/2008, -1/+4"If you attempted to kidnap me, good luck. I live near a police station and know dozens of cops as friends. I carry Pepperspray and a Cellphone with GPS. You'd be royally ***** if you tried anything and wouldn't get far. I'd consider that adapting to the problem too.."

        You sound like a *****.
    • Sroek, on 08/31/2008, -6/+17Polar Bears aren't going extinct naturally, ***** idiot.
      • dudefaceguyman, on 08/31/2008, -6/+4Yes they are. They're not adapting to their surroundings. Before you say it, we're not entirely responsible for this climate change. The earth climate fluctuates often naturally. Sucks animals are getting affected but oh well.

        Throw your buckets of red paint since I don't follow this certain ridiculous Peta action. (You know how expensive sending a boat and gear to retrieve those bears will be? Ya, that's much better spent on a bear then, you know. A starving kid or something.)
      • stark222000, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2how about pollute less and stop the ***** from melting so they dont drown?
      • dudefaceguyman, on 08/31/2008, -2/+2I said it before and I'll say it again. The climate change fluctuates naturally and while we are affecting it to a small point. It's pretty much negligible.

        I believe in polluting less and living more clean and efficiently. It improves our quality of life, saves money, reduces smog, ect. But I don't do it because I think it's gonna somehow magically stop the ice from melting and save the Polar Bears. That's ridiculously absurd.
    • andymci, on 08/31/2008, -3/+5So if I were to walk into your home and, let's say, kill your dog... that'd be fine, right? After all, animals die. It's all part of life. Life moves on, adapt or die, right? If your dog dies by my hand, it's just because he chose to not adapt, right?
      • dudefaceguyman, on 08/31/2008, -4/+1The earth climate fluctuates quite often naturally. To make this comment more a more reasonable argument. Let's say a giant boulder randomly landed on my dog (don't ask why, that boulder is kinda a dick) and while you were out hunting after firing a gun hundreds of yards away the bullet managed to ricochet off my house, off my car, and finally manages to get lodged in my dogs dead carcass.

        Yes you shot my dog, but did that really change anything?
      • infiniphunk, on 08/31/2008, -1/+1People like you truly live in a realm of fantasy don't they?

        oh, that was @ dudefaceguyman. The question here is not did a boulder land on your dog and he shot the carcass, the question is he shot your dog and it is the bullet that killed that dog. It's people like you that are so blind, because you don't see all the damage all around you, or maybe just don't care. You have a few nice homes, a nice car, a nice wife, a nice job, why should you care? That deforestation is happening around the globe to feed greed and gluttony, why should you care? It's always guys like you that are so bloody pleased to learn from our dear scientists that yes indeed, "there is such a thing as climate change that ISN'T caused by humans! There you go! Told you so! We're off the hook for it! That's it boys, fire up the engines and let's burn, woo hoo!"
        Have you ever considered sir, that at some point something will happen that you will not be able to adapt to? Don't expect pity from us on that day dudefaceguyman, because we certainly won't have any for you.
      • dudefaceguyman, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1You need to understand something. Since every single one of my replies only touch a single part of my argument. You people are only reading a small part of what I'm saying. (God forbid you guys actually read all the comments.) So I'm getting a lot of repeat arguments here.

        I support lowering our pollution, cleaner air with less smog is good! I'm not against living a more efficient life. I support the foresting companies like my local one that plants a tree for every single one they cut down. They reuse the same area in a rotation. I support using our resources efficiently and carefully.

        Climate change: As I said before. We probably do make a small impact on the climate. But the climate regularly changes naturally so it's really so negligible it's nothing to worry about. Not some catastrophic event like these crazy sensationalist ***** are making it out to be. This isn't anything new for Earth, it goes through phases. It's been here for 4 billion years, we're merely a flea on its back that it can shrug off.

        Unless you or anyone else has some legitimate arguments (not ***** stories you read on the goddamn daily mail) I'm done discussing this with you. It's now becoming me replying to the same insults/arguments over and over.


    • crazymonkey, on 08/31/2008, -6/+9Wow, you win biggest douchebag of the universe hands down...
    • samyoungguitar, on 08/31/2008, -7/+7Dude.. ***** you.
    • theatheist, on 08/31/2008, -2/+7right, and how the ***** are you going to adapt if you were in their shoes? Adaption to niches occurs over generations of species, not in 1 life time. get a ***** clue *****.
      • dudefaceguyman, on 08/31/2008, -3/+1Yeah it sucks. It really does. I'm not saying it's all great for Polar Bears, they're pretty screwed. Though I've seen some documentaries on training Tigers to live in a completely new habitat and hunt Deer. I'm sure they could do something similar for Polar Bears.


        This constant, "Oh look. The Polar Bear is sitting on the last piece of Ice. *tear*" isn't doing anything to fix the problem. Why not try relocation tactic thing? It's not like you can convince these animal worshipers to donate to anything else..Might as well use the money wisely..Instead of fetching Polar Bears from the Ocean every year like it's gonna turn out.
      • norman619, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2They will hunt on the land and the sea like they have done in the past. Try to keep in mind that it's been warmer than it is today in the recent past. Polar ice has receded before also in the recent past. Guess what happened to the polar bears? Since they are still here and thriving they did just fine. Animals will always wander out to where they shouldn't be. They always do. Stop being such a tool and speaking on subjects you obviously haven't bothered to look into.
    • norman619, on 08/31/2008, -1/+4Polar bear populations are on the rise not declining. They have been for a long time. They aren't endangered. They aren't even threatened. They are doing fine according to the people who's job it is to monitor them. This article is full of BS.
    • Ladymongoose, on 08/31/2008, -3/+6I bet you're voting for McCain.
      • dudefaceguyman, on 08/31/2008, -3/+1Hah. Because that's at all relevent to the topic. Obviously you and majority of diggers here are stumped trying to argue in any sensical way, so you resort to insults or in this case bashing a candidate everyone on digg hates even though it doesn't even belong in this discussion. Merely so you can get the gratification of being dugg up. Part of me pities you for that.

        Anyways since obviously my political standing is important to you. I'm voting Obama. I'm neither democrat or republican either. I'm independent. All the politicians suck, even Obama. But he sucks a bit less then McCain.

        Following any party blindly is just as bad as following a religion blindly. Which I find hilariously hypocritical of the Democrats (or in the rare case Republicans) that swarm Digg while bashing religions all the time.
    • NiGHTSChao, on 08/31/2008, -2/+3You are an idiot.
      They cannot adapt to such rapid changes on the fly, their bodies are not able to change to accommodate the lack of landmass/ice in the area
      • dudefaceguyman, on 08/31/2008, -1/+1As Norma619 said it well in a reply to Theathiest :

        "They will hunt on the land and the sea like they have done in the past. Try to keep in mind that it's been warmer than it is today in the recent past. Polar ice has receded before also in the recent past. Guess what happened to the polar bears? Since they are still here and thriving they did just fine. Animals will always wander out to where they shouldn't be. They always do. Stop being such a tool and speaking on subjects you obviously haven't bothered to look into."

        They can adapt just fine. There's the occasional dummy that gets killed doing stupid stuff like in this article. But that's natural selection in full gear. Dumb ones die, smart ones that hunt on the land live. Polar Bears are ok. This is the Daily Mail we're reading, they thrive on making a sensationalist story out of nothing.
    • Nerolus, on 08/31/2008, -1/+4***** you, the end.
  • talonstriker, on 08/30/2008, -14/+99They can stay in my fridge for a night.
    • glinsvad, on 08/30/2008, -17/+2How do you propose to have them delivered - by the Coast Guard helicopters?
      • jasonliman, on 08/31/2008, -1/+14you obviously need to smoke some weed
    • shaherazad, on 08/31/2008, -1/+13Hey, what happened to all my frozen Halibut?

      Damn polar bears!
  • garg, on 08/30/2008, -46/+121Global warming is happening. We're part of the global ecosystem. When species start dying off at this rate, then we're soon to follow.
    • bestsoccerdog, on 08/30/2008, -21/+13Species always go extinct, and new ones replace them. It's just a matter of which species will adapt to the climate change.
      • Jareth86, on 08/31/2008, -1/+6But not us! ...Right?
      • bluezinc, on 08/31/2008, -1/+7Yeah, except we're losing them at over 1000 species of plant and animal per week. That indicates a massive global extinction. Humans are acting as the meteor that destroyed the dinosaurs.
    • MercurySoup, on 08/30/2008, -17/+41We can only reduce it by so much. This picture is sad, but global warming is part of the earth's natural cycle.
      • KMartSheriff, on 08/30/2008, -6/+22Have no idea why you're getting dugg down, you're completely right.
      • DarkLance, on 08/31/2008, -7/+11It is, we just helped it along.
      • bluezinc, on 08/31/2008, -9/+10He's not completely right. Sure, he's kind of right, but in context he's completely wrong.

        THIS global warming event is NOT part of the natural cycle. According to the natural cycle we should be deep in an ice age right now, but we're not. We're not because humans have been manipulating the Earth's atmosphere for thousands of years. 8,000 years ago the Chinese flooded the river valleys for agriculture, the resulting release of methane slowed the Earth's decent into ice age. That decent became slighter and slighter until the industrial revolution when it leveled off completely. Our emissions were almost perfectly counteracting the Earth's natural cycle. However, in the 1950's the rise of the automobile caused that steady line to move again. The temperature started to rise, ever so slightly. People began to notice in the 60's and 70's at which point we noticed we SHOULD be in an ice age and some scientists jumped the gun and claimed that we were heading for one. This rise in temperature is exponential and way, way, way too fast to be of the Earth's natural cycle as it's "cycles" take tens of thousands of years and this is happening within a few decades.

        All the information I've presented comes correlating the methane found in ice cores with major events in industry and agriculture.
      • infiniphunk, on 08/31/2008, -0/+3@bluezinc
        you got dugg down, talkin all scientist like.
      • HomieAS, on 08/31/2008, -2/+1If polar ice melts, wouldn't the sea level go down?
      • davidlick, on 08/31/2008, -0/+3No it'll rise.
    • Bicx, on 08/30/2008, -12/+4But I can live without Arctic ice
      • Jareth86, on 08/31/2008, -1/+6No, you can't.
      • NuclearIsShit, on 08/31/2008, -1/+4If it ain't happenin to me, a hyuck, then it ain't worth talkin about, I reckon. HEEEE HAAAWWWW!
      • rdoger6424, on 08/31/2008, -0/+3I hope you live in the mountains
    • samyoungguitar, on 08/31/2008, -13/+14Dude, they're dying at our hand. It's not evolution. The change is so rapid they can't adapt. In Canada they're moving so far south (adapting) that they're wandering neighborhoods. Then we kill them when they get there. It's ***** and it is our fault.
      • Wavicle, on 08/31/2008, -8/+3"It's not evolution."

        So what is evolution?
      • samyoungguitar, on 08/31/2008, -6/+4Evolution is a natural process that affects the DNA of a species. This is a man made process that's affecting specific ecosystems and directly threatening the existence of the species within them. Go back to school. Take your vitamins.
      • avatarroku1, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2Why are people digging down samyoungguitar? He is absolutely right. This is NOT evolution, which takes place over thousands of years, but the bears' entire world disappearing and not knowing what the ***** to do.
    • baldwin90, on 08/31/2008, -11/+9Survival of the fittest really. Humans will evolve, as will thousands of other species. Global Warming is just politics.
      • BigMouthBass, on 08/31/2008, -1/+4I think you might, as many do, think that means strongest. That isn't what fitness means in biological evolution. It means individuals with the greatest likelihood of survival, and can be completely through a series of mutations or because of a certain blood type, or immunity. It can mean hundred of different combinations of random factors. This is not evolution. This is a problem of mass extinction caused by very specific and identifiable factors of human interference with natural cycles in temperature changes on earth.
      • bluezinc, on 08/31/2008, -1/+10Evolve within a few decades? Yeah, ok. If we don't evolve quickly, and I mean ***** lightning-bolt on speed fast, and in exactly the right way, we're all going to be very, very uncomfortable.
      • arjie, on 08/31/2008, -1/+4Dude, that's not how evolution works. Mutation doesn't suddenly happen when faced with adversity. Adversity simply culls everything that can't make it. It's a simple selection process. If you have a mixture of spherical grain of size radius 1.5mm and radius 0.6mm and a sieve with holes of size 1mm, the grain that passes will all be of size 0.6mm. But if all the grain was 1.5mm then the sieve won't pass any grain.

        The adversity here is the sieve, and the mutations cause the differences that make a particular kind of species more likely to pass the sieve than some other kind.

        The mutations take time to happen, they're not more likely just because warming occurs. The climate change will result in some variations in some species being favoured, yes, but just because it's warming doesn't mean those species will mutate to a better form. That's ridiculous!
      • Danhrules, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2What could they have done to evolve? Grow wings in a few generations?

        Actually, that would have been pretty cool!
    • anonymiau, on 08/31/2008, -7/+23No no no, head in the sand, head in the sand! Global warming is a myth. Nothing humans do has any effect on the environment. We can just continue to reproduce exponentially and spray everything around us with chemicals. You see, humans don't follow normal laws of physics. We are action with no reaction. We can do anything without any consequences. Keep filling up those SUV's cause the atmosphere can take infinite amounts of CO2. So what if this planet turns into Venus? Humans will evolve, as they say.....apparently into balrogs...
      • smurfsahoy, on 08/31/2008, -9/+1Nobody ever says global warming doesn't exist.
      • infiniphunk, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2"apparently into balrogs..."
        that was excellent
    • wdr1, on 08/31/2008, -4/+5Is that true? Are there any studies that indicate a drop of biodiversity? Or that it correlates with an impact on humans?

      The reason I ask is there are at least 3 historical events that eliminated more than 90% of the species on the earth before getting where we are today. If anything, we've learned one thing: life is extremely resilient.

      Not to rain on your polar bear parade-- I'm just curious how about the science.
      • anonymiau, on 08/31/2008, -1/+11http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/08081 ...

        "Devastating declines of amphibian species around the world are a sign of a biodiversity disaster larger than just frogs, salamanders and their ilk, according to researchers from the University of California, Berkeley."

        http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6502368/

        "The world's biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, the recognized global watchdog on endangered species said Wednesday in announcing its annual list of most vulnerable wildlife."

        "The report concluded that humans are the main reason for most species' declines. "

        http://ecologicalproblems.blogspot.com/2008/05/con ...

        "World wildlife fund estimates that biodiversity had decline by more than a quarter in the last 35 years. "

        http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?link ...

        "Between a quarter and a third of the world's wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the Zoological Society of London...Humans are wiping out about 1% of all other species every year, and one of the "great extinction episodes" in the Earth's history is under way, it says."

        Enjoy
      • bluezinc, on 08/31/2008, -0/+8Life may be resilient, but it's also extremely rare. We haven't found signs of advanced life anywhere else in the galaxy, so let's try and protect the life we DO have.


        Also, "life is very resilient" is referring to the fact that it continued throughout the massive historical die-off periods. Unfortunately the first animals to go during those periods were, you guessed it, the large animals. Sometimes all that was left were invertibrates.

        Now, I don't know about you, but I'm not comforted by knowing that at least cockroaches will survive.
      • infiniphunk, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2wow anti-environment guys. You got schooled!
    • sportbikepilot, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1damn I sure hope you're right...
    • chillypacman, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2dude, we're the ones killing htem!
    • volacide, on 08/31/2008, -3/+1Shut the ***** up.
  • nick7er, on 08/30/2008, -24/+13This is so sad! We have to do something about this! This is what Obama and Mccain should worry about.
    • beahmad, on 08/30/2008, -19/+13yeah, of all the things that are totally and hopelessly messed up in america we should probably worry about these eight polar bears dying
    • worldchanger, on 08/31/2008, -8/+3cry me a river.
    • Myonosken, on 08/31/2008, -1/+3Um, global warming is a massive issue, but not the main concern they should focus on. How about avoiding a new cold war?
    • badnewshotel, on 08/31/2008, -5/+2You are some kind of retard dude. This is what the President of the United States should worry about? Jeez, I'm worried about you crossing the street alone.
    • BigMouthBass, on 08/31/2008, -0/+3What is happening with the polar bear is a symptom, not the disease. It is a larger issue. It is not a "politics" - it is an environmental crisis. And, yes, any major world leader, any human being, should be VERY concerned about it. And Senator Obama has made this part of his platform.
    • black27696, on 08/31/2008, -1/+1I don't get it. Stun them, scoop them, move them, and wake them back up. Why can't we do that? They move animals like that all the time. If they're THAT worried about this, then do it.
  • AnotherDiggGuy, on 08/30/2008, -26/+6To hell with the polar bears. Why isn't anyone concerned that global warming is here and I don't have an AC???
  • bonlebon, on 08/30/2008, -8/+129Swing those arms buddy remember all the juicy people on the shore.
    • skippy562, on 08/30/2008, -2/+62YAY we saved the bear!! NOW RUN!!!!ahhhh
  • welliwonder, on 08/30/2008, -9/+26Someone should send a boat/net/tranqs to help?
    • jedinsyd, on 08/31/2008, -7/+2And then what? Still doesn't get him to where he wants to go. DO we dump polar bear survival as a requirement for the coast guard or do we try and prevent this from becoming worse.
      • welliwonder, on 08/31/2008, -2/+1We could bring them back and cook'em up. Is polar bear stew any good?
      • TheBigBad, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Not sure, why don't you start driving north, let a few of them in your car, drive them back and we'll find out. If one of them happens to bite your face off then we'll just leave that question unanswered.
    • TheBigBad, on 08/31/2008, -0/+3Or drop something large and buoyant in the water and tow them somewhere.
      • goshdang, on 08/31/2008, -0/+3the polar bear is large and buoyant
      • TheBigBad, on 08/31/2008, -0/+4it must not be too buoyant since the article is about it's imminent drowning.
  • SteveMTyler, on 08/30/2008, -14/+78Pretty cool photo.

    I enjoy back country skiing, sailing, and biking. So my opinon on environmental matters is not exactly unbiased. I think it is foolish to think humans, in all their capacity, have had no impact on the environment. Deniers get around this by saying it is foolish to believe that the theory of global warming because human actions aren't completely responsible for global warming. But they are just playing with words, specifically the narrow, elementary, definition of 'theory' and by saying 'completely'.

    The worst kind of deniers refuse to believe that the world is on a warming trend. Some people enjoy being kooks for the attention, so there is nothing really to say there.
    • macweirdo42, on 08/30/2008, -4/+10I would certainly say, we are far from conclusive on global warming. However, we know that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and we know we are pumping a hell of a lot of it into the air. It would be foolish to assume that our activities CAN'T have an impact on the climate. Are we? Who knows? But it would be completely illogical to rule out the possibility. I mean, that's science. You want to take into account as many variables as possible.
    • SteveMTyler, on 08/30/2008, -2/+20It's not conclusive because conservative think tank press releases get more media time than scientific inferences from models.
    • zarvensha, on 08/31/2008, -1/+8Okay, my opinion is the whole Global Warming argument has been the best distraction possible.

      Whether you agree or disagree with Global Warming you couldn’t possibly agree that pumping tons and tons of crap in the water and air is a good thing.
      So if it isn’t we need to stop it, one way or another.

      Now if we stop it, and the planet stops warming, well, there you have it.
      And if nothing changes, the air and water get better.

      So either way, Global Warming is not the issue, mankind polluting the planet is the issue.

      Or let me put it another way.

      If I take a crap on your breakfast, are you going to eat it, or you going to say that’s disgusting and ask me to clean it up?

      Collectively, mankind is crapping in its own breakfast, and you want to argue if its getting warmer?


      Does that make sense to you?

      Not to this guy:-

      http://thedamagecontrolgroup.blogspot.com/index.ht ...
    • Kakemonstere, on 08/31/2008, -0/+5Yeh, I live in the north of Norway and I can tell you, the winters are come later in the year and it ends quicker. It's so ***** up that two years ago you could just snowboard two weeks of the entire winter! Reading in the newspapers that it's possible that we wont have snow in the winter in 20 years, and that is just sad =(
      • dusanmal, on 08/31/2008, -4/+2But your own ancestors enjoyed warm and fertile Greenland not so many generations ago. Way warmer than now... Climate is not constant, no matter how much we wish it to be and trying to make it constant is more unnatural than just affecting it with our behavior. We are the part of the Nature and our behavior is part of it.
      • macweirdo42, on 08/31/2008, -1/+3Climate is not constant, no. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be worried about it. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be trying our darndest to improve our climate models. I would say that it's not so much relevant whether the current change is natural or man-made, so much as we need to know exactly what the climate is doing. Climate change often brings with it death, and if we better understood our climate, we could better prepare for change.

        I mean, that's what's insane - global warming isn't just about carbon credits and *****, it's about more accurately modeling our Earth's climate. I don't know how anyone can say that the study of it is unnecessary. Even in the event that global warming is a completely natural phenomenon, it would be incredibly useful to know what to expect.
      • evilangela, on 08/31/2008, -0/+3Greenland? You do realize that ice covers about 80% of Greenland, and that ice has been dated to be hundreds of thousands of years old, don't you? It wasn't called Greenland because it was green - it was the name given to it by Erik the Red, who was in exile and attempting to attract people there. So he named it to sound great. But it wasn't.

        You're right, climate changes. It has many, many times. But always more slowly than this, and every time it's changed substantially, bad things have happened. Massive floods, extinctions, massive changes in ocean currents that have completely altered weather patterns. Creating our own change in the climate isn't going to make things better for humanity. And given that CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions take time to have environmental effects that actually show up, by the time the climate is clearly heading into disaster territory for us, we can know that even if we suddenly ceased all emissions, it would still get worse for years to come.
  • LiQuiDFeAR, on 08/30/2008, -20/+4this is semi-sad
  • SouljaBoySTFU, on 08/30/2008, -4/+70:(
    • Dylson, on 08/30/2008, -1/+16>=(
    • jtbell04, on 08/30/2008, -1/+10>:3
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      • svensksvamp, on 08/31/2008, -0/+4That's the weirdest fiesta I've ever been to.
  • Bricktopgr, on 08/30/2008, -14/+242That's a hilarious picture! The bear clearly is in the wake of the helicopter that's taking the pictures turbulence...these are not normal waves...
    If you want to help the poor guy start by not harassing him when fighting for his life!
    • spankr, on 08/30/2008, -1/+53No kidding - how about the WWF take some of that donation money they get and buy a decent ***** zoom lens so they can take photos of doomed bears and not aggravate the situation with rotor wash!
    • LiQuiDFeAR, on 08/31/2008, -18/+3Your an idiot, I bet you have never seen the Alaskan waters.
      • spaceshipsix, on 08/31/2008, -0/+8Tell us about these peculiar Alaskan waters
    • SeaFour, on 08/31/2008, -1/+47I wouldn't say it's hilarious by any stretch. But you're right, rotor-wash certainly isn't helping their situation.
      • Bricktopgr, on 08/31/2008, -0/+6Ok fair enough it's badly worded...I meant it's hilarious because of the irony!
    • OfNumbers, on 08/31/2008, -1/+4The goggles! They do nothing!
  • kevin52094, on 08/30/2008, -18/+41yet most republicans still deny that this IS a problem.
    • beahmad, on 08/30/2008, -3/+20even after we have definitive evidence of a polar bear in water!!
    • AmericanParty, on 08/30/2008, -10/+5They said it would slow down in September...Earth to Hippy: It's still August.
      • Kanten, on 08/31/2008, -5/+7Just like when they said "Mission Accomplished" right?
      • SugarCoatedSalt, on 08/31/2008, -6/+7you are a ***** idiot, do the earth a favor and kill yourself.
    • SeaFour, on 08/31/2008, -6/+12That's because the Republican party has been co-opted by arrogant pricks like Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and Coulter who have made careers out of sensationally and diametrically opposing common sense. These cretins broadcast their talking points, irrespective of logical or factual content, ad nauseum (and as loudly and obnoxiously as possible) until people either buy into it (giving them credibility) or until someone calls them on their ***** and gives them even more attention (which is also to their benefit).

      This culture of rampant anti-science, anti-reality, and anti-intellectualism that the Republican party is cultivating is now starting to have serious consequences. Don't believe me? Then refer back to the picture of the polar bear whose home has melted away. And if you still refuse to believe in climate change, ask yourself this: If global warming is an imaginary issue, why is it causing such tangible problems?
      • badnewshotel, on 08/31/2008, -7/+3Know what - I'll take Limbaugh and Coulter any day instead of botards like Gore, Sharpton, Jackson, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, Edwards, Dean, Clinton, and Clinton. Those libs have stolen the Democratic party and turned it into the meanest, most vile group of people ever.
      • SeaFour, on 08/31/2008, -2/+6Know what - You don't have to take any of them. This world would be a better place if we all did a little more thinking for ourselves. Politicians and their lackey pundits are all full of *****, some are just slightly more full than others. Just because I called Limbaugh and company out doesn't mean I'm endorsing Democrats.
      • badnewshotel, on 08/31/2008, -4/+2Then who are you endorsing? Santa Claus?

        I think for myself. I am an educated person. I know why I believe what I believe and can articulate it to others. I like Limbaugh and Coulter (noticed I left O'Reilly out), but they're not in control of my brain. Just because they do what they do, and I agree with them, doesn't mean I don't think for myself. What do you want, anarchy?
    • black27696, on 08/31/2008, -5/+2The ice cubes in my drink are melting in the middle of august in a room with no A/C...... GLOBAL WARMING!


      A patch of ice melting isn't a sign of global warming. If you people had been around when the Earth got past the last Ice Age you would have been screaming global warming the first time an area of the planet cleared 30 degrees F.
  • OmegaWolf, on 08/30/2008, -14/+10At this rate, the arctic will lose the animal for which it was named.
    • beahmad, on 08/30/2008, -3/+16yeah, we are going to lose those constellations in no time if we keep emitting greenhouse gases. first ursa major..what's next? the big dipper?? that's it, i'm buying a hybrid
    • strictnein, on 08/31/2008, -0/+4Come on people. That was pretty f'en funny.
    • spasms, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2Hilarious OmegaWolf.
    • dexter411, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Mhm, and if we keep killing all those killer bees, Africa will lose the animal for which it was named.
  • disrupter, on 08/30/2008, -24/+8Loosing some weight wont hurt him, fat ***** bear
    • Metatron197, on 08/31/2008, -0/+6maybe you should join him
    • samyoungguitar, on 08/31/2008, -2/+1You *****!! Damn.. why is that kinda funny?
  • sonycam, on 08/30/2008, -7/+233Looks like a job for Super Phelps!
  • DeadFox1, on 08/30/2008, -3/+5we should save them. mr bush, send a boat.
    • darknephilim, on 08/31/2008, -0/+7Well obviously George Bush hates Polar bears.
      • WesleyD, on 08/31/2008, -1/+4Yea he's probably got them somewhere on a terrorist watch list.
  • sadsadrobot, on 08/30/2008, -19/+67Question is: If we were drowning in the Arctic would a bear save us?
    • mrsanon, on 08/30/2008, -12/+24Answer is: No, other animals dont have the intelligance we do.
      • bluesatin, on 08/30/2008, -3/+15Or idiocy depending on your point of view.
      • SeaFour, on 08/31/2008, -0/+47You spelled "intelligence" wrong.
      • Cofaloaf, on 08/31/2008, -2/+1I think he was kidding.
      • MaskedMuffin12, on 08/31/2008, -1/+4Oh the irony.
      • talonstriker, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2I don't know whether you were sarcastic, but dolphins (which, you'd agree don't have human intelligance") save us asses in the sea once in a while.
    • ObamaWins08, on 08/30/2008, -8/+80If we were drowning in the Arctic, would it be the bear's fault?
      • Lith25, on 08/30/2008, -30/+11Not our fault the ice-caps are melting.
      • yor1001, on 08/31/2008, -1/+1Not unless you are trying to escape from the bear that is trying to make you its next launch...so you jump in the Arctic as a last resort just to find out you cant swim for *****...
      • nosecohn, on 08/31/2008, -0/+17Depends how many millions of gallons of oil the bear is burning every day.
      • CrunchyDeluxe, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2That's just it though... the fact that the bear is in the water, isn't our fault!

        Why must you people blame humanity for every little problem in the world?

        In fact, why must you see a problem in everything? The world MAY be getting warmer. Polar bears MAY go extinct. There is absolutely no science whatsoever to back these ideas up, but even if there was, why worry? The climate was subject to change before humans came on the scene, and the climate is subject to change while we're here. Same with animals... extinctions took place before we showed up, and will continue to do so.

        Just because we're more intelligent than polar bears, doesn't mean we have any obligation to save them from extinction. Nature will take it's course, as it always has, for roughly four billion years... and if the polar bears can't handle it, it's not our problem.
    • feanix, on 08/31/2008, -0/+18The bear would certainly bring our long, slow deaths to a quick, if violent, end. :D
    • username7410, on 08/31/2008, -0/+5Yes they would. They'd then kill and feed us to their young.
    • fuzzybeard, on 08/31/2008, -1/+4non-verbal answer: OM NOMNOMNOMNOM!
  • anthonybruno, on 08/30/2008, -6/+18those polar bears need some gps
    • Dylson, on 08/30/2008, -1/+6Yeah, you give a polar bear a GPS and see how useful it is as it proceeds to eat your feet.
      • Kedyn, on 08/31/2008, -0/+5I always wonder what it would be like to have a bear eat my feet.
      • nosecohn, on 08/31/2008, -0/+6or eat your meters, depending on how you set the GPS.
  • else7en, on 08/30/2008, -9/+4why was this submitted in "offbeat"
  • Dylson, on 08/30/2008, -19/+4I dont care. Polar bears are assholes.
    • theMADone, on 08/31/2008, -0/+5much like your good self then?
      • Dylson, on 08/31/2008, -2/+1Yes. I will kill and eat you for no god damn reason. I look cute but will tear u in half if you try to save me.
      • theMADone, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2humans kill for territory more than animals, hense the amount of species we've wiped out through habitat destruction. but your either retarded or a troll, so i dont expect a considered response.
    • tramblings, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1He's right. They'll eat you alive as soon as they see you. That's what I understand anyway. Friend of mine went to go see them and they were told the things stalk people outside their doors and feast on people when they can. Brutal beasts in the wild. They're not the cuddly animals depicted in cartoons, that's for sure.
  • killerknives, on 08/30/2008, -7/+99where the ***** are they I'm buying a boat
  • 2h3px, on 08/30/2008, -28/+37Sarah Palin: "You see, this picture CLEARLY disproves that polarbears are endangered 'cause if they were, thetr wouldn't be any to take pretty pictures of and the theory of evolution because, according to that "scientific" theory the polar bear would "evolve" to swim away from me and my helicopter-mounted hunting turret. P.S. this is what my kid with Down Syndrome looked like when he escaped my vagina, and yes Clinton supporers, I, like you, have a vagina!" "Old man/ trophy Veep, 2008!!!!"
    • DarkLance, on 08/31/2008, -1/+10I'm hoping you were using incoherent dialog to illustrate your point.
      • feanix, on 08/31/2008, -2/+1I beleive so...
      • 2h3px, on 08/31/2008, -3/+2Sadly, I realized its complete inchorence about 30 seconds after the edit time had elapsed.
      • CrunchyDeluxe, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Damn, you're a moron...
    • feanix, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2+1 Internet
    • TinternAbbot, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1tool.
  • Protonz, on 08/30/2008, -2/+71There was recently a story on digg about a polar bear making a very long swim and finally making it to shore. Then humans killed him.

    Stupid humans.
    • peestandingup, on 08/30/2008, -2/+50Humans have pretty much become the scum of the Earth. Im off to marry a Llama.
      • diespectra, on 08/31/2008, -0/+26Llama *****.
      • Synchro, on 08/31/2008, -1/+3We've been a plague/scum on this planet for a long time. It is not a recent development.
      • CrunchyDeluxe, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Correction: YOU are the scum of the earth.
    • protodon, on 08/31/2008, -1/+21Tina! Come get some ham!
  • stubarwick, on 08/30/2008, -14/+31I'm making a commitment and I don't care if it gets dugg down... just wanted to say it.

    I've had enough of this... I'm going to change things...

    I'm going to work my ass off till I know I've made a difference... I'm going to change things for the better and I'm going to help others change as well... I won't stand idly by... and it starts now
    • Asianwaste, on 08/30/2008, -17/+13"I've had enough of this" - No you don't
      "I'm going to change things" - You you won't

      "I'm going to work my ass off" - You're not
      "until I know I've made a diffference..." - You won't

      "I'm going to change things for the better" - You are not
      "I'm going to help other change as well" - You can't
      "I won't stand idly by" - You will, you just think you aren't
      "It starts now" - It doesn't.... neither will it ever... neither do you know what it is because your resolve is a joke.
      • Post4Cash, on 08/31/2008, -0/+6Pessimism FTW
      • avatarroku1, on 08/31/2008, -1/+1And It's people like you who got us into this ***** in the first place. Thanks. Thanks a lot.
    • cosmoli, on 08/31/2008, -3/+9All the best for your endeavors!
    • SeaFour, on 08/31/2008, -4/+10Good for you, hope you stick with it. As for the people digging you down- to hell with 'em.
    • biogears, on 08/31/2008, -9/+4Had enough of what? Polar bears swimming 400 miles from land/ice? Or helicopters drowning bears for a photo op? Or wacky eco-fear articles? Help me here...
    • NuclearIsShit, on 08/31/2008, -2/+14You CAN do it.

      I started composting on a large scale at my family's farm. I then got a job at my city's food bank and started a composting program there. It was so hard to get people on board, and to come up with good ideas to deal with the labor involved, the logistics, but we figured it out. The company that we started sending our compost to saw some potential, and bought a new huge compost truck and now they pick up compost all over the city.

      So one person, me, had a vision and I saw it though. The corrupt governments and corporations don't want to change so we have to use their system and force change. We have to use this "free" market to make the change happen.

      If you want clean energy for your community then rally your community and get a windmill built. You want a farmers market for your area? Start one, or better yet start one and become a seller too. You see a need for a food bank? then start one. No solar panel business in your community? Start a new business.

      You can make the change happen, just use your talents and be stubborn like crazy and just keep charging ahead no matter what these negative jerks say.

      Those people are just not brave, smart enough or inventive enough to make a positive change like what you want to do. Don't listen to their dribble. Good luck!!
  • TailsTheMan, on 08/30/2008, -10/+3AIDS is doing it's job pretty well.
  • aresgunther, on 08/30/2008, -12/+8this is natural selection in progress. they'll adapt or die out.
    • spankr, on 08/30/2008, -6/+7No it isn't, idiot. There is nothing "natural" about what we are doing to the Earth, its climate, and the environment.
    • JohnnyMarr, on 08/30/2008, -0/+5Yes. Perhaps they'll grow gills and flippers.
    • Peekman, on 08/30/2008, -1/+6Aren't polar bears now mating with brown bears and becoming a sort of beige bear.... thus being able to swim and hunt in the oceans but having the foraging abilities of brown bears as well???

      This looks like natural selection to me..... we just sped it up a bit.
    • aresgunther, on 08/31/2008, -3/+3@spankr
      Perhaps you misunderstand the definition of "natural selection". Natural selection is defined by wikipedia as
      "the process by which favorable heritable traits become more common in successive generations of a population of reproducing organisms, and unfavorable heritable traits become less common, due to differential reproduction of genotypes."

      The word "natural" here means a process that is occurring throughout nature. This includes anything that's caused by the earth or people on it. The fact that polar bears are dying is sad, and I'm very insensitive about it all, but a changing environment causing a change in a species is normal. That's how it's been working for a while.
      • Kedyn, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2Dude, you used Wikipedia to prove your scientific point? Epic fail.
      • aresgunther, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1"process that results in the adaptation of an organism to its environment by means of selectively reproducing changes in its genotype, or genetic constitution."
        - from Britannica if you prefer.

        If this still confuses you, try http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Anatural+se ...
    • theatheist, on 08/31/2008, -2/+3Natural selection has nothing to do with it, Humans are a Catalyst in their deaths. Natural Selection doesnt regulate Climate change.

      seriously the more clueless posts i see, the more worried i become about the future
  • unfinite, on 08/30/2008, -15/+5***** the RIAA
  • DeuceDiggalow, on 08/30/2008, -17/+21Polar bears will definitely go extinct if McCain and Palin "win" the "election"
    • belleaux, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1j0FS0Z6ho
      We need change, vote Obama!!! Follow me my Obama diggbot lemmings
    • black27696, on 08/31/2008, -2/+3Obama has been talking about not wanting another old white politician for president (no, you idiots, he never SAID that, I'm saying he implied it) and also talking about change and not following the status quo, but his VP pick is an old white politician that helped to create the status quo in washington. No one seems phased by that. McCain picked a qualified woman for VP and all you see is that she's a woman, yet unlike with Hillary, you have a problem with it...
      • CrunchyDeluxe, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1And diggers everywhere seem to think that Palin is somehow not qualified to be president... she's more qualified than Obama! And she's just running for VP.

        Digg's liberal saturation is REALLY pissing me off...
    • ecod3r, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1to add more, 10s of millions of humans will go extinct too.
  • JonyMill, on 08/30/2008, -8/+1cool
  • Mononuclear, on 08/30/2008, -3/+15Has anyone tried swimming in the ocean with a helicopter right above you? It is damn hard! I would be drowning too if a helicopter was making waves and blowing sea spray into my eyes. Let the poor guy swim in peace!!!
  • JohnnyMarr, on 08/30/2008, -5/+9Good Lord that's depressing...
  • tallulahvulture, on 08/30/2008, -8/+1zoo?
  • zephyear, on 08/30/2008, -12/+91SARAH PALIN DOESN'T CARE ABOUT WHITE BEARS.
    • imquaid, on 08/31/2008, -12/+6yeah, but she's hot.
    • dstz, on 08/31/2008, -8/+2Well as a hunter she certainly does care more than you and your caplocks. I'm not sarcastic. But, pardon me, just all get back in the outraged pose. Fits you so well.
    • AEPhiElizabeth, on 08/31/2008, -5/+0Hahahahahaha!

    • j1ggy, on 08/31/2008, -2/+1She doesn't care about beavers either.
    • 9bpm9, on 08/31/2008, -3/+1Wow, that wasn't funny.
    • CrunchyDeluxe, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2NEITHER DO WE.

  • JonTheGoose, on 08/30/2008, -2/+23www.poolnoodlesforpolarbears.org

    For just noodles a day, you can make a difference.
    • persept, on 08/31/2008, -0/+9Am I the only one who tried to visit that site?
      • raineee, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2I just can't believe I still went on it even while reading your comment.
      • chrisrad, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Did anyone else consider buying the domain?
  • Obamaisourhope, on 08/30/2008, -1/+14Thats sooo sad
  • wagadugo, on 08/30/2008, -2/+13Brought to you by the Penguins For Palin lobby
    • eggsovereasy, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4nice
    • m301, on 08/31/2008, -1/+1Penguins live on the South Pole. Polar bears live on the North Pole.
      • s0nicfreak, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.
  • bigpuffy, on 08/30/2008, -1/+37blowin air into his face from a helicopter 10 feet away from him ain't helpin either.
    • Kingdeez, on 08/31/2008, -0/+0EXACTLY what I thought when I read this. Climate Change aside, that's a bitch move towards that polar bear, just leaving him there...
  • Asianwaste, on 08/30/2008, -10/+2Do it for who? The territorial, violent, and deadly carnivore who would kill you if you got near?
    • SEANWOOKIE, on 08/30/2008, -1/+5So were hating things for how they were born now?
    • theatheist, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2the same deadly carnivore that is so necessary to the ecosystem. Kill a predatory carnivore to extinction, and the natural order dissolves. you willl have a lot more pests thats for sure.
  • friendlyman, on 08/30/2008, -8/+4The poor thing is probably in need of electrolytes!
    • sexLethal, on 08/31/2008, -1/+0The lil fell'r surrounded by electrolytes, sodium and chloride ions dissolve excellently in water to make a electricity-conducting solution....salty sea water.
  • DivineMonkey, on 08/30/2008, -0/+12Heartbreaking. I love polar bears =(
    • worldchanger, on 08/31/2008, -3/+3me too ... but I can't eat a whole one.
    • cutter1400, on 08/31/2008, -1/+1They love you too. Especially with a little salt.
  • Batonz, on 08/30/2008, -9/+0Timely Digg. Sarah Palin is HOT! Enough said.
    • samyoungguitar, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2You're a ***** idiot. The only people saying that are people who can't ***** someone half as hot.
  • JCPahl, on 08/30/2008, -22/+21Uh, polar bears regularly swim hundreds of miles hunting; they're some of nature's best swimmers (land-mammal wise). This has nothing to do with melting poles; it's yet *another* sensationalist story from the tabloid Daily Mail. Get a grip.
    • SeaFour, on 08/31/2008, -1/+12[citation needed]
      • JCPahl, on 08/31/2008, -7/+4I'm not here to spoon-feed you. Get off Digg and read a book.
      • SeaFour, on 08/31/2008, -0/+8I'm currently reading Tolstoy, that doesn't change the fact that you can't back up your statements with facts. And how about you just get off Digg?
      • nosecohn, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2I'm naturally skeptical about these things, so I did 10 minutes of research on the web, throwing out any studies more than a year old, because scientific climate modeling has improved dramatically recently. All of the scientific literature I found paints a grim picture for polar bears. Here's the most-cited example:

        http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/special/polar_bears/d ...

    • PxCxG, on 08/31/2008, -8/+11I think you must be right. I mean, I was going to ask the obvious question that no one seems to be asking...if the bear is unable to swim 400 miles to shore, then how did it *get* 400 miles from shore in the first place? Don't try and tell me that global warming caused the ice to melt right from below him, because it didn't.

      I mean, I don't want the bear to die, but what the heck does this story have to do with global warming? Maybe the bear got lost and got itself into this situation. That would be sad, that's true, but that would have nothing to do with Global Warming or McCain/Palin.
      • biogears, on 08/31/2008, -3/+4Please, do not reason logically through an assertion on a digg article. :)
      • nosecohn, on 08/31/2008, -0/+4I think (and honestly, I'm not sure about this) that the premise is based on how bears get to their hunting/feeding grounds. Remember, they hibernate part of the year, so they have to hunt and eat a lot while they're awake. They get to the prime hunting areas by walking over long stretches of ice, with an occasional swim. Because of the ice breaking up more, the hunting season is shorter and the bears have to swim much farther in search of food. Once they get out to sea, instead of finding another large sheet of ice, they just find more ocean, and then, they drown. This may or may not be true... but that's my understanding of the theory.

        One thing that has been demonstrated through scientific studies is that polar bears in some regions are getting notably smaller quite quickly, which is a clear sign of malnutrition.
      • doublefelix, on 08/31/2008, -1/+3Try hanging out on a slowly melting ice float for a week hunting seals North of the Bering Sea and see where you wind up.
      • dipdog21, on 08/31/2008, -0/+3Did you read the article... Your questions and statements are answered there ya know. Also it is not one polar bear it is a group of 9.
    • Calcularius, on 08/31/2008, -5/+11The article clearly says that about 100 miles is all a polar bear can swim and that would be to the point of exhaustion. They got out there that far because the chunk of ice they were on melted. You two, JCPahl and PxCxG, are a couple of non-article reading idiot douchbags. You're so quick to spout off your ignorance and don't even ***** care how completely wrong you are. YOU SUCK!
      • PxCxG, on 08/31/2008, -1/+1Yes I did read the article, and in fact it speculates that they got there by swimming the wrong direction, NOT by ice melting from under them.

        Maybe tuesday when you are back at middle school you can ask your 7th grade special education science teacher now long it would take an iceberg that's big enough to support the weight of 9 polar bears to melt in the freezing temperatures of the arctic -- I assure you it would be a long, long time.

        So no, once again, the ice did not melt from below them.
      • Calcularius, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1The second ***** sentence in the ***** article:

        "It is one of a group of nine to have plunged into the ocean after the ice float they lived on melted."

        Also, the point of the whole article is that the "freezing temperatures of the arctic" as you put it, are no longer freezing because the polar ice cap is now much farther north than it has been before.

        So, your stupid joke about middle school kind of falls flat now doesn't it?
        Maybe you should have spent your time actually letting your brain learn something instead making up lame fantasies about the 7th grade. It must be embarrassing to look like such a retarded ass now.
    • 9bpm9, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2The sheeple are burying you. All of these idiots talk about how they hate cable news, but they are brainwashed by the same news organizations they despise.
  • AmericanParty, on 08/30/2008, -8/+2may the strongest polar bears survive
  • RocquesDiggs, on 08/30/2008, -5/+6This warming has not just started nor will it just end. I agree it is really sad, but maybe you should see the houses all the rich and famous build in the wilderness areas to get away and be with nature, and fly in to them. Plus when you say humans are stupid, well we are all part of it. How long has your computer been on today? Do you drive to work? We are in a no win situation for the most part.

    My 2 cents.
    • SeaFour, on 08/31/2008, -2/+1Sounds like a defeatist attitude to me. If we are unable to do everything then we shouldn't do anything?
  • kidwithsword, on 08/31/2008, -1/+7At this rate, the ice caps will be gone before we can do anything to stop them from melting. The only hope for the polar bears is that they can make it to some kind of land or that they can be saved by ships. What else is there, really, that they can do? Hopefully they can adapt to warm climates...
  • emryss, on 08/31/2008, -4/+56just save the damned thing instead of watching it drown
    • abrasion, on 08/31/2008, -0/+10Not to sound heartless but what do they do? Lend the bear a hand? I'm sure the bear will love the taste of it.
      It's a no win situation.
      • doople, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I've got an idea, let's hoist this water-logged 2000 lb killing machine out of the freezing ocean and throw him in the back of the chopper. He won't mind.
    • joelcass, on 08/31/2008, -0/+12here, just jump in my 'copter mr. bear. i'll let you be my copilot, alright.....aaaahahhhhh he's eating me he's eati.......gulp
    • NuclearIsShit, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2throw down some steaks, give it a little bit of swimming energy.
    • nubba, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2How about drop a POD measuring 3m x 3m in the middle of a sea. A helicopter would be able to pull this off. The bear would have a temporary spot to rest. Then drop a few Kgs of fish on the pod. Oh and while there, drop some of those seal clubbers on the pod for extra entertainment.
    • arcooke, on 08/31/2008, -2/+3It's weird.. I know this is probably the dumbest thing that's ever entered my mind.. but I wish I could be there, reach out my arms and see if he accepts the help (yes, I know I can't lift a polar bear, this is my mental picture, stfu.). It sort of makes me wonder if his instincts would tell him to attack and kill or trust the creature that just helped him. If you've ever seen "Grizzly Man", or at least know the story, you'll know that bears can be very unpredictable. They can be humble and friendly, or they can be angry and vicious.. it seems like it just depends on their mood.

      There's really nothing that makes human life any more significant than a bears. I'd probably try to help. Once again, a dumb ***** idea, but I wouldn't be able to just stand there and watch that. Poor guy.
    • ryanonfire, on 08/31/2008, -2/+2and keep interfering with nature?
  • maven1000, on 08/31/2008, -8/+12Love this tactic. When the science is failing, put a cute Polar Bear drowning to sway the sheeple back to your corner. I am not saying this is not sad but lets stick to the science of the issue rather than emotion.

    Any discerning person can see through this propaganda.

    The ice caps have actually increased by 30% this year. http://www.prisonplanet.com/arctic-ice-grows-30-pe ...
    • Niallgriff, on 08/31/2008, -4/+6You're going to need a source that isn't prison planet. The ramblings of a bunch of closet Nazis like Jones and his ilk does not lend credibility to