Latest Image Of “Starving Polar Bear”

By Paul Homewood

It looks like this is going to be the next iconic image to sell the global warming scam:

A group of filmmakers have shared images of the gut-wrenching moment they stumbled across a starving polar bear clinging to life in the wild as it scavenged for food.

Photographer Paul Nicklen and filmmakers from Sea Legacy spotted the bear on the Canadian Baffin Islands this summer.

The group captured disturbing images of the emaciated bear, with its white hair hanging off its bony frame, dragging its back legs behind it.

Mr Nicklen was used to seeing bears in the wild, having grown up in Canada’s far north, but nothing could have prepared him for this encounter.

“We stood there crying—filming with tears rolling down our cheeks,” he told National Geographic.

Mr Nicklen said he wanted to intervene but was powerless without a tranquillizer gun or high-fat animal meat.

Instead, he decided to film the bear’s slow death to be sure it did not die in vain.

“When scientists say bears are going extinct, I want people to realise what it looks like. Bears are going to starve to death,” he said. “This is what a starving bear looks like.”

The half-ton bears rely on sea ice to find their main source of food – seals, causing them to suffer the effects of climate change acutely.

With their Arctic home warming at an alarming rate, the sea ice which they use to hunt for seals is melting and grizzly bears are moving into their territory.

A study published last year by the European Geosciences Union found melting sea ice continues to be an existential threat to polar bears.

Another study published this year discovered the bears rely heavily on their sense of smell to find their prey. To do this, they walk across the direction of wind to test the air from as wide a range as possible.

But wind speeds are projected to increase as a result of climate change, which will make it harder to pick up and follow the scent.

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No doubt many gullible people will fall for this unashamed nonsense. It will not have occurred to them that polar bears, just like all animals, get old, sick or wounded, and, unable to hunt, end up starving to death.

It might be sad, but it’s called nature.

What on earth do these people believe happens to polar bears when they get old? Get sent to Old Polar Bears Homes?

You will no doubt recall this previous attempt to make us all feel guilty a few years ago:

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Unfortunately for the scam, the photographer, Kerstin Langenberger, was quite honest about it. She said:

‘Yes, I have seen bears in good shape – but I have also seen dead and starving polar bears. Bears walking on the shores, looking for food, bears trying to hunt reindeer, eating bird’s eggs, moss and seaweed.

‘Many times I have seen horribly thin bears, and those were exclusively females – like this one here.

‘A mere skeleton, hurt on her front leg, possibly by a desperate attempt to hunt a walrus while she was stuck on land.’

As even Professor Iain Stirling, arch polar bear alarmist, was forced to admit at the time:

‘You have to be a little bit careful about drawing conclusions immediately. The bear may be starving but it may just be old.

‘A difficulty hunting could be involved. I don’t think you can tie that one to starvation because of lack of sea ice.’

Meanwhile, back in the real world, it turns out that the Baffin Island Polar Bears are actually doing pretty well:

Researchers with the Canada-Greenland Joint Commission on Polar Bear assessed the Baffin Bay and Kane Basin polar bear populations bordering sections of Nunavut and Greenland and found that both groups had numbers higher than was assumed, based on the last count conducted in 1997. Using aerial surveys, biopsies of tissue samples obtained by darting and the capture and satellite tagging of 125 bears, the research team found that the Baffin Bay bears, which were last counted at 2,074 twenty years ago, have kept relatively stable in numbers and actually increased slightly to 2,826.

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Indeed, the Canadian authorities are so unconcerned about the Baffin Island bears, that the locals are allowed to kill 132 per year for sport and food.