http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_120809/content/01125110.guest.html
Claim: Climate change leading polar bears to cannibalism is a myth.
True: I will agree that given the chance the males will eat the young. It seems this is a case of sensationalism linking a horrifying image to that of climate change, as reported by the CBC,
“However, an Inuit leader in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut said the incidents are non-events and that it's wrong to connect the bear's behaviour with starvation.
"It makes the south — southern people — look so ignorant," said Kivalliq Inuit Association president Jose Kusugak.
"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," Kusugak said”
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/12/03/mb-polar-bear-cannibalism-churchill-manitoba.html#ixzz0fLzroyUa”
The reason that environmentalists will latch on to this story as being a cause of concern for the environment is that the thought of a cute little polar bear cub being eaten by its own kind is indeed horrifying. Those in the environmental community need to be careful when making such claims, when they are proved to be false; it only adds fuel to the fire of scepticism.
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