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Copenhagen ice bear

Thu, Dec 10 2009 17:57 CET 5179 Views 2 Comments
Copenhagen ice bear

Copenhagen ice bear

Copenhagen ice bear

The life-size polar bear, carved from ice by the Ice Bear Project in Copenhagen to showcase the melting of the polar ice caps due to global warming. Carved out of ice on December 5, it has been melting since then, revealing the bronze skeleton sculpture inside.

The ice bear stands at the head of a visually stunning photographic exhibition, its creators say, that leads visitors to the events taking place in the Arctic Tent set up by wildlife conservation society WWF in Copenhagen for the duration of the climate change summit in the Danish capital.

"In touching this sculpture everyone can become sculptors and make a direct connection with the bear and its ice-locked kingdom. We hope that this creative act will bring home to each person how humanity has the power to affect the delicate balance of nature," the Ice Bear Project, a not-for-profit arts organisation, said on its website.

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Anonymous Vic Snowden Tue, Jan 05 2010 19:46 CET

The hole in the roof gets bigger with every dawn and day
Sun blazes down makes the Polar Bears frown as it melts all their land away.

Men in their mortar boards dames in their gowns they should be our saviours but their Lucifer's clowns and the hole in the roof gets bigger every day.

Birds have no trees to sing in
crops in the fields wont grow
Concrete jungles of greed replace the air that we need and the mountain tops ain't got no snow. [...]

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The men in their mortar boards dames in their gowns kneel to get their knighthoods as the Polar Bears all drown
and the hole in the roof gets bigger every day.

www.rhodopianrhapsody.co.uk

Anonymous Tom Harris Wed, Dec 16 2009 13:15 CET

It is ironic that, of all creatures, the polar bear would become the icon of much of the global warming movement. In general, they are not seriously endangered by global warming (if it restarts - it has leveled off in the past 7 years, of course - check any global temp index data set and you can easily see that):

1 - since the 1960's their numbers have more than doubled.

2 - Since they evolved about 70,000 years ago from the Kodiac Bear, Polar Bears have survived warm periods hotter that [...]

Read the full comment what we may possibly get during this century. If they were not driven to extinction in the Medeival Warm Period, the Roman Warm Period, the Minoan Warm period and even the Holocene Optimum which was the absolute warmest since the end of the last galcial, why wouold people consider them threatened now (aside from the impacts of overhunting, which, indeed, is a threat in some subpopulations.

This is one of our Challege questions to the Sec Gen of the UN - show us your data that suggests Polar Bears are in trouble from climate change - see www.copenhagenclimatechallenge.org

Tom Harris
Ex Dir ICSC
www.climatescienceinternational.org


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