Remember that wonderful picture of stranded polar bears on an ice floe that were used by folks to demonstrate how dire the man-made global warming issue is?
It turns out the picture was taken in August, “when every year the fringes of the Arctic ice cap melt regardless of the wider effects of global warming.”
The photographer, Australian marine biology student Amanda Byrd, didn’t think the bears were in any jeopardy
Denis Simard of Environment Canada agreed: You have to keep in mind that the bears are not in danger at all. This is a perfect picture for climate change…you have the impression they are in the middle of the ocean and they are going to die...But they were not that far from the coast, and it was possible for them to swim...They are still alive and having fun.
Associated Press released the photo two and a half years after it was taken, on the day the United Nations released its major global warming report.
Al Gore saw it. He used it in a presentation on man made global warming.
