Clip of Polar Bear trying not to drown

[ghostryda604]

To all the people out there that are arguing whether or not it's cool for a polar bear to swim 400km or not, that's not the question or the debate. Whether it's right or wrong makes no sense...the bear's home is being completely fucked up, we can't expect our polar bears to swim for the rest of their lives just because they can. It's about their homes. Not their swimming ability. =) Thank you for coming back to reality.

[stig5057]

Polar bear can swim.

[suwee75]

yup real sad :(

[Thejbirdy]

Geeez......give him a hand already!

[MrTranscend1]

smog deniers are fools

[12ze34]

A drowning bear...that's news for me...

[Nightversionn]

Polar bear need sea ice to hunt and survive, and it is disappearing. The oil trolls and cyber-bullies can f*** off this video

[beardedswine]

these bears can swim like 400km and they hunt whales in the water. i'm not too worried about them drowning

[Nightverslonn]

@Agogaraxis ---- so to follow your logic, we need to make the human race suffer and be less successful in order to "save" the planet

great plan

[guitarplayeryzz]

@CSSpaceRat

the weaker they get, the worse is their condition, so they are not strong enough to hunt!!! that's why you idiot!!

[guitarplayeryzz]

@CSSpaceRat

you freaking idiot !!! why are there still people like you out there, shit, how people like you freak me out!!! you have obviously no fucking idea what you're talking about, do you ?!?! they are drowning because they are too weak and it is getting worse every year!! you know, the ice they're hunting on comes later every year, so they need to wait for a longer time..... the longer it takes, the weaker they get + they have cubs to feed and they need milk!! so the weaker they get, the

[senithe363]

@13andincradiblycutt Exactly! They are excellent swimmers.

[senithe363]

....Although polar bears typically utilize ice to hunt (this is not always the case), they are excellent swimmers. All this talk of global warming causing polar bears to drown is nonsense. They are the best swimmers of land-based mammals on this planet.

[OMGmynameisLILI]

@senithe363 You can run, just like a bear can swim... but can you run 24/7 the rest of your life? not, you need somewhere to rest and sleep!!! T_T SO DO THEY

[TheGeoffrey0]

@senithe363 like grizzlies they rely on body fat, if they are wasting more energy to find food it won't matter when they finally find it, they have thicker fur then grizzlies, they can be suseptable to hypothermia because they don't have enought fat when they swimm. The fat is also needed to raise cubs, studies have shown there are less cubs being born and smaller sizes, this is due to stress. Yes they can swimm but it's alot of energy, even michael phelps can get tired of swimming.

[CSSpaceRat]

You are kidding me, right? I have spent many years in Alaska, and all this film shows is normal Polar Bear activity. And the ones shown are nice and fat! And it is a scientific fact that Polar Bears can swim up to 100 miles - good grief, you environmental extremists will say anything , no matter how outlandish, to trick people into thinking the "poor Polar Bears" are drowning due to so-called Global Warming. 80 years ago there were less than 4000 Polar Bears left, now there are over 25,000.

[Nightversionn]

Global warming is melting the sea ice, and that is a disaster for polar bear who need it to hunt seal.

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Don't listen to a word of the oil trolls all over the internet and TV. They lie

[CSSpaceRat]

@Nightversionn yeah, don't listen to the truth.

[RobertoStinkyPants]

If by "trying not to drown" you mean "swimming", then that's what I do on a regular basis. So far, so good.

[enigma99a]

OH NO... Spring time. Somehow it is man's fault lol

[tsharpmac420]

where does the part that shows a polar bear trying not to drown begin?

[AtlasObjectivist]

LMAO - um... just to fill you all in on today's breaking news. The scientist that put forth this whole polar bear drowning thing, Charles Monnett, has been suspended and is under investigation over this very issue.

Crumble... crumble - that is the sound of the liberal socialist agenda falling into the ash heap of history.

[vechorik]

A federal wildlife biologist, Charles Monnett, whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the global warming movement has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated for scientific misconduct, possibly over the veracity of that article.

[Uncompelable]

why don't we transport them into safer ice zones and fisher men leave dead fish for them around the artic where polar bears can find them?

[heyheyheyitsmandy33]

@Uncompelable cause other animals eat the dead fish, lets say a walrus and whales, baluga whales, etc. the polar bears can't get to them fast enough :(

[calmarcalmar]

people not seeing the fallacies of this video - are pretty... pretty braindeath. That's a fact for sure.

[wonka001]

I hate to break it to you all, but one volcano erupting creates more greenhouse gas in the atmosphere than all man kind in several hundred years. Global Warming is only a myth created by far left fanatics to scare people into buying into their tree hugging hippie ways. We as humans do need to be responsible for our environment, but it is not as bad as they make it out to be.

Another side note, the most predominant greenhouse gas in our atmosphere is Dihydrogen-Monoxide.

[captainmorgan757]

All of the other planets in our solar system have had an increase of temperature too.  Is this also "caused by man"??!!

[nobloodyusernamesfre]

All you people care about is money. Everything is about the economy, money, buying more stupid shit. All you consumerist bastards are causing global warming, your destroying our planet, torturing our animals and fucking up everything that is good in the world. Stop thinking about yourselves for 2 fucking seconds and care about things that really matter.

[simoniniraq]

And unless you went and took a survey yourself you have no reason to believe "global warming" is A. occurring, and B. man made. And species have always and will always be going extinct. In fact, 99.9% of every species that has ever lived on this planet is now extinct. There is an actual fact for you based on actual science. Also, people eating fish is more vital than polar bears eating fish. If one has to starve, let it be a bear and not a person.

[robowobo808]

Global warming or no global warming doesn't really matter. Here's a simple experiment, if you think filling earth's atmosphere with CO2 isn't a problem why not get yourself a bottle of it and report back to us after breathing only CO2 for 10 minutes and let us know how your feeling.

[TubeofDestiny]

haha anti global warming zealots, you're so funny guys :D

[CSofAmerica]

OK EVERYONE LISTEN, HERE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT "GLOBAL WARMING": 1- POLAR BEAR POPULATION IS UP %400 FROM 1976. 2- Co2 LEVELS RISE AS A RESULT OF WARMING (Co2 is the MAJOR accused "cause" of global warming). 3-MOST PICTURES/VIDEOS YOU SEE SUPPORTING GLOBAL WARMING ARE FAKED, USED OUT OF CONTEXT OR JUST LIES (fake iceburgs, misleading angles or just complete lies). 4- "BIG OIL" ISNT STOPPING RESEARCH, ACTUALLY MORE MONEY IS SPENT ON RESEARCH THAN OIL CO. SPEND ON REFINING, DRILLING AND SHIPPING!

[CSofAmerica]

Just look on the brightside. He is starving because he's too heavy for the ice. Well, if he cant hunt he loses weight which means eventually the ice will support him and he can hunt. I bet evolution steps in and polar bears will eventually be the size of house cats! Shut up, that was a joke but guess what, "Global Warming" is a joke too! I wish you people would back off "Global Warming" and start protesting to the obvious failings in our school systems! You all seem to have a 9th grade education

[roxy201010]

i think that there should be some one famous that kids listen to eg miley cyrus

she has a big voice that people do listen to

she or some like her could make a difference

[roxy201010]

that brings a tear to my eyes

knowing what is going on for the polar bears

i think that all prime ministers and presdiants should get together and find a way to stop this

eg useing the sea water and turnning it into a massive piece of ice or make a little floating thing that they can go on

the people that dont care are lozer

our voices and comments may seem small

but hopefly other people will see this and change the way they do bad things for the enviroment

[noblewulfff]

omfg this is suchhhhhhhhh bulllshit

[xxcheerballgrlxx]

crazymonkey is a moron .

[maskanio1]

Polar bears may be able to swim but they will tire out and they arent used to such long distances which is why they die. They are also prey to the larger fish in the water

[throwerofturds]

what a pile of shit . bull shit thats is . you dummies think the big oil companies are fighting you , causing this global warming , think again , we are to small on this planet to change it .

as for big business , see ron arnolds book , undue influence , he tracks the big business and says that big business is the cause of enviromentalism .

[a7xsynsterfan]

sure just video tape him dont help fucking dicks

[heavyjay420]

It wouldn't be much of a 'Nature' show if they saved every animal in danger. This is meant to show the viewer what life is really like for the bear, not rescue animals in danger. If you had any balls you would know this.

[CrazyyMonkeyy12]

you people who say global warming isn't happening are ridiculous. what are you going to say when glaciers melt and the oceans rise and cities get flooded? what are you gonna say when millions of people have to leave their countries and impose on other ones because their old lands are uninhabitable? you people are so stupid. you make me sick

[ObamaBiden20082012]

This is horrible!! How many polar bears will need to drownd before we finally pass cap and trade? The Repukes will do anything they can to block reform, including dredging up faked emails and quotes taken out of context.

Also, say no to nuclear power! There's now place to store the waste, Yucca is unsafe and cancelled. Obama cancelled the reprocessing review! Let's go green! Obama 2012!!

[Beeglz]

Why do polar bears hunt seals at the edge of the ice?

Because that is where seals go to rest.

Do seals care where the edge of the ice is?

No. The seals will go to where the edge of the ice is and that is where the polar bears will catch, shred, and eat them. I hunt sirloin steaks.

If the supermarket moves ten miles up the road that is where I will go to hunt sirloin steaks.

[REYES22227]

all right wingers are in bred retards no go shoot some thing like your uncle-retard ted .when this country goes third world you ...will be the first one to freak out and die .and the tree huggin libs will still be here a live in harmony with nature lil skinny but a live .

[viddrome]

Polar bears should move to the forest. There's more food there. Stupid polar bears

[toymachinethunder]

so now that al gore is in trouble for LYING what do you think about everyone who said global warming wasnt happening, hate to say it but we told you so

[x4167]

Idiotic retarded video,leave the damn polar bears alone and they will be just fine,they dont need us to take care of them,and it didnt look like the bear was drowning to me,the person who did this video needs their ass kicked.

[WeAreTheBritish]

FACT: global temperatures have NOT risen in the last FIFTEEN YEARS

global warming is a POLITICAL and FINANCIAL SCAM

[UtherPendragan]

A polar bear can not drown unless you put a heavy chain around its neck with a few sandbags. Liberal hippies are such idiots. The next thing you know thier will be polar bears falling from the sky. Oh wait a minute didnt they just do that?

[ptangboy]

Ya, its really quite rediculous. The earth does and its creatures do not need us to interfere. That is a major flaw in human thinking - that nature needs our help to survive. Its totaly arrogant and delusional. Our best choice is to let it be and not try to control things. Man made global warming is a joke and certainly no reason to interfere.

[rusty1491]

Give that Polar Bear an Oscar.

[BroncoLion]

Polar bear numbers are thriving and their numbers have trippled in the last 70 years or so.

They thrive on warm weather, they are one of the most capable swimming animals on the planet.

Humans cannot affect global temperatures and definately CO2 the source of life for nature and plants cannot either. Global warming isn't an environmental movement, it's a global government fraud.

[loijsan]

And how do you explain what happens when humans use fossil fuels, something that has been "built up" slowly by the nature for hundreds and thousands of years and all the sudden gets used by human... What do you think happens when this occur...?

Yes humans do not create it as it's bound to the fossil fuels but we release this and so it's not bound anymore.. There is a balance of CO2 and we humans are ruining this by the usage of fossil fuels.

[loijsan]

@BroncoLion I dare to say your statement there is just a way for humans to keep living the lazy comfortable way of living... Like the senior Bush said "The American Way of Life is Not Negotiable"... Yes climate change is a natural occurance but this one has had a lot of help by humans way of using fossil fuels...

[smcnallen]

@BroncoLion Polar bears are NOT thriving. As of 2005, 5 bear populations were declining, 5 were stable, and 2 were growing. A mere four years later, in 2009, 8 were declining, 3 were stable, and 1 was growing. The polar bear population of Hudson Bay declined 22% since the early 1980's. There was a growth phase back 50-60 years ago when hunting was tightened, but now the numbers are declining, and declining fast.

[MidNiteR32]

@smcnallen

The Earth is flat too.

[vgman94]

@BroncoLion Quit lying to yourselves. Global Warming is REAL and unless you went and took a survey yourself, you have no reason to believe conservative lies about everything being fine. There's clearly other species going extinct and satellite pictures of the Polar Bear's habitat shrinking. It's clear common sense that they're declining. Especially with human overfishing.

[bepassionate09]

@BroncoLion Your information is incredibly incorrect. Polar bear numbers are declining. They are seal specialists and specifically adapted to hunting on ice and living in the Arctic. Many polar bear populations heavily studied in the Canadian archipelago are not expected to survive more than another 30 years.

As sea ice melts, polar bears will not be able to adapt and become terrestrial mammals becuase that niche is already occupied by grizzlies... the Principle of Niche Exclusion.

[bepassionate09]

@BroncoLion Please do some actual research (ie peer-reviewed journal articles in reputable scientific journals) before posting incorrect facts. Almost any, if not all, polar bear experts (scientists with PhD's and decades of experienece) will tell you that polar bears are undoubtedly endangered.

Ignorance such as yours is the reason so many people do nothing to change their harmful habits. You are adding to the problem. Hopefully you enjoy witnessing animal death and species extinction.

[CSSpaceRat]

@bepassionate09 Well, now all of your "Almost any, if not all, polar bear experts" seem to be saying that now that there are over 25,000 Polar Bears in the wild, and growing, they are not nearly as endangered as they were, say 80 years ago, when there were only less than 4000.

You guys never stop pulling statistics out of your ass to support your claims. No wonder everyone is laughing at you.

[archangel]

How is 31,000 scientists that include 9,000 PHD's suing Al Gore and his crack-pot science make up 3%? That would mean 1,033,333 scientists are for global warming. Last number I heard was only 2500 are in Al Gore's pocket, or should I say Maurice Strong's pocket. That number is down from 3500 which did include Lord Monckton.

[smcnallen]

@archangel Here's the problem with your numbers: To be considered a scientist, you really have to have a PhD. So, you're only talking about a max of 9,000 REAL scientists. Other signers of the Oregon Petition (to which you are referring) were medical doctors, people with Masters or Bachelor's degrees and even veterinarians! Would you take your vet's advice on global warming? Probably not. The Oregon Petition was signed by THIRTY-SOME real climatologists. The consensus is pro-warming.

[simoniniraq]

@smcnallen Definition of SCIENTIST 1: a person learned in science and especially natural science : a scientific investigator. You don't get to make up your own definition of a scientist. Wow, "THIRTY-SOME" "REAL" climatologists are pro-warming. I bet there is good grant money in all this for the "real" scientists. No problem = no grants.

[senithe363]

@simoniniraq You're exactly right. There's bad science everywhere you turn to look. It's all about money. Take a look at big pharma...

[Probesoul]

Longest confirmed record of a polar bear having swum 320 km

Distance between Iceland and Greenland, where Greenland Straits are narrowest, is about 300 km

Latin name Ursus maritimus, it is sometimes called a marine bear.

Greatest mammal swimmers because the long fir is hollow and keeps them afloat, they just have to paddle awaythey cant sink.

Polar bear's great stamina is best seen in its long swims at 10 kph

They have wide front paws with slightly webbed toes that help them swim.

nuff said

[mtuers]

I thought polar bears could swim for hundreds of miles. Their fur strands are hollow and trap warmth from the sun and keep them afloat.

[PonguigPeopinn]

1. Carbon Dioxide is a PRODUCT of temperature change, not a cause!

2. The warmer it gets, the more polar bears there are.

3. The temperature on earth is primarily dictated by the sun. We are currently entering a cooling period.

4. C02, the main concern in this debate, is a primary fuel for life. The more C02, the more plants that can grow and thrive.

5. The attempts to change public perception by using chemtrails to dissipate air moisture causing cities to warm up won't help you.

[tayakeeley]

its very sad.. to answer some qns and doubts raised below-

yes polar bears do swim, yes they are very strong swimmers, and yes they can and do swim long distances to find food. The problem is that man-caused climate change is decreasing and decreasing the amount of ice. this means that polar bears must swim further and further to find ice, and recently the ice has decreased at such a rate that some polar bears have actually been found drowned.

[tommitaly93]

It's so sad.....

[prettylyricsmarie]

global warming is man made. people these days don't care, unless it happens to them...its sad to see this...but I am trying to do the best I can to help with climate change because I care!

[LessonComplex]

Wow Global warming makes the sun hotter everyday the end of the world is near this is pretty shocking poor polar bears gonna be come extinct.

[Mccnuget]

Final point for the cry babies.

The entire earth has frozen over many times, without human help. The entirety of Africa was once covered in dense jungle.

The jungle disipated into desert, long before humans could lend a hand.

The climate and enviroment is always extreme, the fact that people are pointing at floods and hurricanes and bawling about global warming is stupid.

Not everyone is so easily roused by Al Gore, and to sacrifice jobs over it, is wanton enviromentalism.

[Mccnuget]

And i absolutely despise being this literally for something so very, very theoretical. But I live in Australia. We had about 5 years of the fiercest draught. People cried global warming.

We said no, its that El Nina Al nino thing.

Anyway, Al nino comes, and about a month after we have floods, massive floods, greatests in an age.

The point is, the draught was global warming, then (in accordance with pattern) the rains were global warming. Everything is indicative, do not be fooled.

[Mccnuget]

Hahahahahaahahahaha.

These things are designed to appeal to the weak and sentimental. The Artic ice is never going to melt, we all know that. But the thought of it melting makes these rape victims cry hard enough to forget that. Grow a pair.

[LyssieLovesYouMuch]

Mccnuget.

That was ignorant. You like seeing a polar drown? The Arctic, and Anarctic ice is melting at an alarming rate.

[Mccnuget]

Oh come on? See it here folks. I didn't say i enjoyed seeing a polar bear drown.

But clearly if i don't support outrageous mesures (like taxing companies at the expense of jobs) I must want polar bears to drown.

It is not melting at an alarming rate. People think the world is stable, its stupid.

There is still no concrete evidence global warming exists. People take extreme climate change as an indicator, but thats just stupid.

[xxShatteredMirrorxx]

polar bears are excellent swimmers but they cant spend all there time in the water its like u swimmers for a very long period of time with out stopping u'll get tired and die

[danilo137]

Wake up!

How many miles can a polar bear swim?

Global warmming is a fake! everybody already knows that.

and by the way, it really seems the bears are having fun in the ice, it's theys environment.

[xxShatteredMirrorxx]

ITS NOT FAKE!!! ITS not and bears can not swim forever they R DROWNING BUT PEOPLE LIKE U WONT DO CRAP UNTILL ITS TO LATE U WAKE UP!!!!!

[harryobsesser]

um hello?

yes polar bears bodies are made for the cold water,

but polar bears get tired and are beginning to die because of drowning.

really we are not the ones who need to wake up,

its you.

[LyssieLovesYouMuch]

After about a mile they become exhausted and die.

[danilo137]

Idiot, I can swim a couple for miles. You can too, probably.

GET A LIFE!

[bobbybenjamin]

moron, you would drown in 5 minutes. 97% of scientist disagree with your retarded statement.

[toymachinethunder]

global warming is fake

its just natural climate change

and that polar bears not drowning its swimming its one way they find food

[xxShatteredMirrorxx]

they r drowning and dieing

[QuartKnee4Real]

omg it isnt drowning!!! polar bears are considered aquatic animals, they love to swim, they are excellent swimmers, they arent stupid, if they were in danger they could just walk over to solid land where they live throughout the summer while the fast

[PompousFlea]

That makes alot more sense. Thanks.

[marine2496]

srsly at least help the damn thing dont just sit and watch. i know im going to get some shit comments back about how they cant go on the ice but still

[toymachinethunder]

polar bears are pro swimmers

they swim as another way to fish

[CrossMediaOwnership]

Are you trying to be insulting?

Why?

Do you know about the suppression of alternate energy research by the oil companies.

I not going to suggest you hang yourself, but maybe you could chill-lax a little.

[cobias]

if warming is a natural part of nature then fine...but if it is man made the people responsible for it will be hung. Publicly. Its not about the bears its the fact that the capitalist vermin would alow this to happen to the plannet. People better beware of what they say because things can change over night and you may find yourself in a "camp". We are keeping records of ip adress. I can see that the TV commercial has already ben banned...

[CrossMediaOwnership]

Do you mean hanged?

Hanging people is not the answer.

What TV Ad are you referring to btw?

[CSofAmerica]

I have some horrible news for you. IF humans are responsible for global warming (which it has been proven over and over again) then guess what... youre just as responible as everyone else! You dont like it then do something about it! Instead of posting your rediculous comments on youtube why dont you turn off your computer, go to the arctic and protest. I promise you that in the first 15 mins there you will be wishing that "Global Warming" was actually real!

[imbored104]

yeah al gore didnt even have permission to use this tape he just made the drowning thing up

[LavaMountainKat]

This happens every year the ice starts to melt, Polar Bears swim, fucking propaganda

[QuartKnee4Real]

hell ya lol this same video couldve been shot 100s of years ago before any of so called "evidence of global warming"

[xxShatteredMirrorxx]

its happening today stupid

[PompousFlea]

from 0:55-0:56, did anybody else hear ". . . they can't hump the seals they need to survive."?

[Onegreatdayne]

This is real. They get exhausted and drown. 21cigaret knows so little about so much.

[CrossMediaOwnership]

A survey by the U.S. Mineral Management Service has recorded elevated numbers of polar bears drowning.

Polar Bears spend almost all their time roaming the frozen sea surface hunting for food and training their cubs to do the same.

Field researchers have reported a growing number of females are failing to gain enough weight during the summer to be able to successfully breed.

[QuartKnee4Real]

maybe they are losing weight because they can't find seals because ppl are killing the seal off, not because the ice is melting... in 2007 it was said that arctic ice would be gone if the temps went up at the same rate they were going by 2008... and what happened in 2008? the ice grew drastically in every direction.

[QuartKnee4Real]

From the 40's to teh 70's scientists said we were heading toward another ice age, that we were experiencing global cooling, then a couple yrs later they changed their mind and decided we were causing global warming. Temperature change is cyclical!!! we go thru periods of increase and decrease, just because it can't be explained doesnt mean ppl are causing it and there is impending doom!

[CSofAmerica]

@CrossMediaOwnership Oh my god, I wish you people would actually do your own research instead of just posting what you heard from a friend that saw Gore's movie! Polar bear population is UP %400 since the mid 70's! You think its Co2 that causes temp increase dont you? Well is has ALSO been proven that Co2 levels increase AFTER the temp goes up! I have a tip for you half-witted people posting your fantasies on youtube... Read a book for once that the name doesnt end in "For Dummies"!

[gtdehng]

is this for real i mean are you really serious polar bears can swim up to 200 miles what drowning are you talkin about

[sopheee]

yes you tool, but they drown if they dont eventually come to ice. they run out of energy from trying to find ice all the time

[QuartKnee4Real]

polar bears arent stupid!!! they don't go out to get food and all the ice melts and they go back and cant find any!! The arctic and antarctic ics has never even come close to completely melting, how do you think they got in the water?

[QuartKnee4Real]

They came off solid ice... ice doesnt melt fast enough for them to not be able to find any. Annnd there is land out there too... did it all break apart and sink? ur fucking stupid! polar bears can swim up to 150mph, they know where they are going, they don't forget where the ice is. Polar bears are a lot diff than other bears, they are considered aquatic animals. How about you do some research about polar bears before you say stupid shit like that.