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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (841)	9/5/2011 1:30:43 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	7 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Yes, the bears may be adaptable. There are white "spirit bears" (so named by the indigenous natives) in the forests of British Columbia that may be remnants of adapted polar bears--though I don't know what scientists say about this (they look like ghost grizzlies). They could be grizzly-polar bear hybrids, which have been documented. At any rate, the polar bears are not threatened. Their population has quadrupled in the last 40 years. Yet Al Gore shows us polar bears 'stranded' on ice floes, without mentioning they can swim for 50 miles. The AGW theory may have started as science, but it has long since become The Great AGW Gravy Train that is supported by more junk science and intimidation of skeptics than you can throw a stick at. The political aims are by now inseparable from the whole. The alarmists have coopted the media, telling them they must save the planet by getting the message out (just what every young reporter wants to believe). Now we read that every kind of weather condition that exists is evidence for global warming, but no weather condition is be evidence against. It's become an unfalsifiable thesis.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (841)	9/6/2011 12:50:21 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Yes, the bears may be adaptable. There are white "spirit bears" (so named by the indigenous natives) in the forests of British Columbia that may be remnants of adapted polar bears--though I don't know what scientists say about this (they look like ghost grizzlies) Polar bears evolved from brown bears (grizzlies). Their genetics are very similar and Ursus maritimus broke off from Ursus arctos (brown bear) only about 150,000 years ago. Polar bears and brown bears can and do mate and produce fertile offspring. I wonder if Al Gore knows the scientific name of the Polar Bear Although most polar bears are born on land, they spend most of their time at sea. Their scientific name means " maritime bear", and derives from this fact. Polar bears can hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present. en.wikipedia.org