Speaker 1: Over the weekend, The Uka Guardian ran a story that
Speaker 1: went viral. It included a soul crushing video of a
Speaker 1: starving polar bear that supposedly proves there is a global
Speaker 1: warming crisis. The video is sad. It shows an emaciated
Speaker 1: bear trying to rummage for food. A conservation group recorded
Speaker 1: this summer in Canada's Arctic region. Photographer Paul Nicolin said,
Speaker 1: my entire Sea Legacy team was pushing through their tears
Speaker 1: and emotions while documenting this dying polar bear. This is
Speaker 1: what starvation looks like. It is a slow and painful death.
Speaker 1: The filmmakers blame global warming, they said, as temperatures rise
Speaker 1: and sea i smelts, polar bears can't find their main
Speaker 1: food source seals. Now wait, instead of crying, why not
Speaker 1: help the bear? Of course that crossed my mind, said Nicolin,
Speaker 1: But he didn't have four hundred pounds of seal meat handy. Besides,
Speaker 1: he says, there was no saving this individual bear. Well
Speaker 1: here the facts. Polar bears are not starving in mass thriving.
Speaker 1: Another news item two weeks ago documented two hundred fat
Speaker 1: and happy polar bears in the Russian Arctic feasting on
Speaker 1: a whale carcass. The worldwide polar bear population is stable.
Speaker 1: It's even increasing in places like Alaska. Nobody knows why
Speaker 1: this bear didn't make it. It could have been sick,
Speaker 1: which happens in nature, but we do know this. A
Speaker 1: soul crushing video blaming global warming is total bs and
Speaker 1: these people didn't have the courage to save a starving beast.
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