Those trying to galvanize action on global warming have tried polar bears, but their populations are at record levels and rising.
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We are told that global warming is putting polar bears on the road to extinction, even though the overall polar bear population today is higher than it's been in decades.
Using ever fancier technologies, the oil business is drilling in deeper waters, more difficult terrain and even in the Arctic (which, as global warming melts the polar ice cap, will perversely become the next great prize in oil).
"After years of delay, the Bush administration was forced to face the reality that global warming has endangered the polar bear and that the polar bear needs to be placed on the Endangered Species Act, " said Markey in a statement to CNN.
The polar bear is certainly mentioned as being vulnerable to habitat loss caused by global warming, but again, the polar bear is not included in this study of mammals of (sub)arctic Europe.
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He is impressed by everything there that is overarching, awe-inspiring, intimidating, overpowering, crushingly colossal, or incomprehensibly strange, and his crabby, self-righteous misanthropy, which comes through in every frame, rises to apocalyptic dimensions: learning of the perils to polar ice caps posed by global warming, he foresees with barely repressed glee the extinction of humanity through climate change.
I'll tell you floods, tornadoes, fire etc all those bad things as well as the sea rising and all the polar bears etc and the rainforest getting destroyed so basically global warming is the end of the world and the end of the world will happen one day even if you recycle one million bottles.
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The polar bear, for instance, is now successfully promoting the danger to Arctic wildlife posed by global warming.
Global warming has been effectively marketed by doom-speakers because it provides really exciting visual impressions: icebergs calving, polar bears exhausted from swimming, and such.
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