04/05/2015
O Planeta pede socorro. Por Favor, vamos mudar.....
If this photo by Ira Meyer Photography doesn't shake your bones, it's time to wake up to the living nightmare of industrially accelerated global warming. The Arctic ice is quickly turning into a lake - displacing and disappearing countless polar bears, who depend on the ice for habitat.
Meanwhile, most nation states are just happy about new geopolitical trade routes through the Arctic, and the opportunity for new underwater drilling and oppression of Arctic Indigenous peoples.
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Image: Mother polar bear holding her cub on a small floating iceberg surrounded by water by Ira Meyer: "I was sailing aboard the Akademik Sergy Vavilov in Olgastretet (Olga Strait), Svalbard, when we spotted this mother polar bear and cub on a small ice floe. Not wanting to disturb them, we approached slowly, never coming closer than 150 yards. We spent 5-10 minutes observing and photographing them. There was no other ice in the immediate vicinity. They were about 10 miles from shore.
An adult polar can swim in the neighborhood of 60 miles without stopping. The cub can also swim, though not as far. The mother can also piggyback it for periods of time.
I have spoken with a fair few more knowledgeable people than myself about the cub's situation, with opinions being split 50/50 as to its likelihood of survival. The key determinant factor would likely be how tides and wind moved other ice."
From The Guardian newspaper 5th May 2015:
"There was less ice in the Arctic this winter than in any other winter during the satellite era, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists said on Tuesday."
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/05/arctic-ice-retreat-scientists-climate-change
Photo from http://www.irameyer.com/galleries/the_arctic/detail_h.asp?product_id=arctic2
