Half ton adorable polar bear destroys $UK130,000 camera equipment

12/26/10, "Polar bear smashes camera equipment worth £130,000 during documentary," TheNews.com.pk (Pakistan)

OSLO: "Animals are not fooled as we might think. They know each and every thing happening in their environment and can even detect small or hidden changes as shown in a recent polar bear incident.

• Award-winning director John Downer while making a wildlife documentary covered his remote-control camera in a ball of snow to capture a part of the Polar bear life and to see how polar bear mother and her cub crosses the sea ice in Svalbard, Norway, in search of seals. But

the snow ball covered camera didn't fool him at all. He went straight to it and tried the explore the thing with the help of its claw and then smashed it into tiny pieces.

After smashing it, his curiosity didn't end up. He set his eyes on a second piece of equipment, Downer's £100,000 blizzard camera. Although the blizzard camera was a remote-controlled but even then the director couldn't steer the equipment away from

• the huge half a ton polar bear. Finally curiosity ended after destroying both the cameras....

'Ultimately, out spycams reveal that polar bears’ intelligence and curiosity are key to their survival in a world of shrinking ice."

• The last part about shrinking ice is false, a hoax to extract billions from US taxpayers in 'a declining America' to make sure it's good and dead. ed.

1/1/09, "Sea Ice ends year at same level as 1979,"

• "Thirty years of sea ice data. The record begins at 1979, the year satellite observations began (Source: Arctic Research Center, University of Illinois)"

"Why were predictions so wrong? Researchers had expected the newer sea ice,

• which is thinner, to be less resilient and melt easier.

Instead, the thinner ice had less snow cover to insulate it from the bitterly cold air,

• and therefore grew much faster than expected, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center....

Sea ice is floating and, unlike the massive ice sheets anchored to bedrock in Greenland and Antarctica, doesn't affect ocean levels. However, due to its transient nature, sea ice responds much faster to changes in temperature or precipitation and is therefore a useful barometer of changing conditions.

Earlier this year (2009), predictions were rife that the North Pole could melt entirely in 2008. Instead, the Arctic ice saw a substantial recovery. Bill Chapman, a researcher with the UIUC's Arctic Center, tells DailyTech this was due in part to colder temperatures in the region. Chapman says

wind patterns have also been weaker this year.

• Strong winds can slow ice formation as well as forcing ice into warmer waters where it will melt."...

Corroborating report about shifting wind effects, 2/3 way down article. 7/28/09, via Climate Depot Fact Sheet.

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