Endangered Polar Bear shot !!!

In Iceland. Wait just how did it get there ?



From the New York Times

Now just how did it get there ?

The oceans may be warming and air temperatures rising, but in recent days Iceland has bucked the global climate trend.
Thick pack ice, the like of which has not been seen for decades, stretched into the western fjords as temperatures plummeted and a bitter wind blew in from Greenland.
The ice has proved a headache for fishermen, who have been unable to put to sea, but it is what comes with pack ice that has caused most concern: polar bears.
People living around the fjord of Dyrafjordur, which last week was almost filled with the ice, were keeping an eye on the sea, conscious that the bears live on the pack ice that covers much of the Arctic ocean.
When chunks break off, as appears to have happened last week, the bears become stranded, drifting wherever the ice takes them.

So it is the growth of Ice that is stranding bears as they float helplessly along the Icepacks. Yes indeed. Polar Bears are being killed because the Ice is growing. Their effective range is actually expanding. This must be wrong if it were correct you would expect that their numbers would be expanding. Oh they are, hmmm.

Crossposted at REDSTATE