Global Warming Blamed for Cannibal Polar Bears

Written By : Dave Blount

Time for an update of The List — the media has again resorted to shrieking that the nonexistent global warming crisis has turned cuddly polar bears into bloodthirsty cannibals:

A group of tourists were left horrified when they came across the grisly sight of a polar bear eating a cub in northern Canada.

The large male adult bear had separated the baby from its mother and killed it in the Churchill Wildlife Management Area, in northern Manitoba, close to Hudson Bay.

Witnesses were left shaken and tearful after the incident.

Statist snake oil salesman rarely pass up a chance to tug on heartstrings:

One theory for the cannibalism is that climate change is melting the bears’ Arctic hunting grounds, forcing them to survive on land for longer and hence leading the starving animals to turn on their own for food.

This provides such a plentiful food source that the polar bear population has been exploding. Thanks to cannibalism, the more polar bears there are, the more they have to eat, leading to more polar bears. Clearly we have to stop this vicious cycle with climate change legislation before polar bears overrun the entire planet, driving up housing prices for the underprivileged.

Back in reality, killing others’ young is a common practice among ferocious beasts. The theory that global warming causes polar bear cannibalism

is disputed by Inuit leaders in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, who claim it is wrong to connect the bears’ behaviour with starvation.

Kivalliqu Inuit Association president Jose Kusugak said: ‘It makes the south — southern people — look so ignorant.

‘A male polar bear eating a cub becomes a big story and they try to marry it with climate change and so on, it becomes absurd when it’s a normal, normal occurrence.’

Moving right along, the press assures us that whatever Eskimos may think, bear infanticide

can be accentuated among polar bears when they run low on fat reserves and become hungry enough to resort to cannibalism, according to conservation group Polar Bears International.

The group predictably claims that global warming is making the bears burn up fat reserves while they wait for the UN to do something about the weather.

If only bureaucrats had video of the cub’s demise to run at Dopenhagen, reassuring themselves of the righteousness of their cause. They’ll just have to make do with this one.

On a tip from BURNING HOT. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.

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Rickvid_in_Seattle

Mother bears protect thier young against male bears all the time. It is quite natural for male bears to kill and eat cubs.

This “it’s global warming” reaction is just becoming a knee jerk statement to plop down at any excuse.
http://conservativebootcamp.com martinhale

Witnesses were left shaken and tearful after the incident.

Any bets that the ‘shaken’ witnesses were eco-tourists (very likely whiny liberal eco-tourists) whose visits to places like Churchill are killing the remaining natural parts of the planet? Jose Kusuga tells it like it is, because he’s from there and knows what happens in that nature.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

Scientists have long known that this happens, and in fact the increased number of polar bears is more likely to lead to this than climate change. Given the absolute scientific fact that for the last few years its been colder and the ice pack has grown larger, their habitat is actually getting bigger, not smaller.

But you know, they have all these stories lined up for the Copenhagen summit and by damn they’re running them, Warmaquiddick or not.
TheBaud

Typical AGW tripe.

* Take something that occurs naturally (Animals eating their young, increased temperatures, storms, etc).
* Tie it to your hypothesis using emotion.
* Hyperventelate about how civilization will end unless we follow your advise.

Rinse and repeat!
DrEvil

This behavior is typical of many predator species. The female won’tgo into heat while she has a cub to take care of. Kill the cub and the female will be ready to mate that much sooner and the male will then have a chance at passing on its genes.

Leftists are moving beyond the ability of rational people to satirize them.

Have an Evil day
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

Witnesses were left shaken and tearful after the incident.

“Waaaaaah! I saw a wild animal eating another wild animal! Mommy! Mommy I need my pacifier!”

Come on, seriously? This is the kind of behavior from a twelve year old or a teenage girl, not fully-grown adults.

Reality check: Animals kill each other. A lot. And they’re not nice about it like we are.
http://www.dragonsbreath.blog-city.com blkdragon

Ya’ll do realize that the average urban liberal hipster thinks milk and steak come from the grocery story and are somehow grown in those nifty plastic containers?
The really do think that wild animals are like the ones they see in Disney cartoons. Just nice peaceful creatures leading idyllic lives of comfort and ease until humans come along and muck things up.
Toastrider

Heh. It’s what I like to call the ‘Bambi Effect’. For a long time, people thought deer were a perfectly peaceable woodland critter, akin to a forest cow. The reality is that deer are notoriously obnoxious, not to mention rock-stupid (I recall seeing a news story not long ago about a buck that killed itself by headbutting a concrete lawn ornament shaped like an elf).
http://www.dragonsbreath.blog-city.com blkdragon

More of them need to spend some time on a farm and in the woods.
My parents owned a house in the woods in southern Wisconsin for the first eight years of my life (fond memories those), and sent me to my aunt and uncle’s dairy farm for at least two weeks a summer until I was twelve or so. Even after that I spent a lot of time hanging out with a buddy on his parents ranch while I was in late grade school and high school.
I’ve never made the mistake of thinking woodland and farm animals were completely docile and safe creatures. It never ceases to amaze me the urbanites that think grizzlies are big teddy bears they can hug.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, we have removed too much of the terminal stupidity factor from life.
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