Polar
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Mentions of
polar
bears drowning: four percent.
My journey to become a
polar
specialist, photographing, specializing in the
polar
regions, began when I was four years old, when my family moved from southern Canada to Northern Baffin Island, up by Greenland.
And that's where I became truly obsessed with this
polar
realm.
It's pure white, but it's not a
polar
bear.
So I'm very excited to be able to show you those images and a cross-section of my work that I've done on the
polar
regions.
Projections are that we could lose
polar
bears, they could become extinct in the next 50 to 100 years.
Polar
bears are amazing hunters.
When I worked on
polar
bears as a biologist 20 years ago, we never found dead bears.
These little, fat dumplings, 150-pound bundles of blubber are the mainstay of the
polar
bear.
I'm going to show you pictures of beluga whales, bowhead whales, and narwhals, and
polar
bears, and leopard seals today, but this picture right here means more to me than any other I've ever made.
They are the most remarkable animals I've ever worked with, and the same with
polar
bears.
And just like the
polar
bears, these animals depend on an icy environment.
I'm not saying it's not nice or pleasant or that it's bad for
polar
bears or forests, though it certainly is.
I'm usually introduced as a
polar
explorer.
I had my skis ready to go, I had a satellite phone, a pump-action shotgun in case I was attacked by a
polar
bear.
Now I don't just mean in the field of daft macho Edwardian style derring-do, but also in the fields of pancreatic cancer, there is something addictive about this, and in my case, I think
polar
expeditions are perhaps not that far removed from having a crack habit.
Well, it's been calculated a few degrees' rise in the earth's temperature would melt the
polar
ice caps.
So again, it got puzzling that there were no bodies of fluid, until finally, we saw lakes in the
polar
regions.
And there is a lake scene in the south
polar
region of Titan.
Moreover, this whole, entire region, the south
polar
region, has elevated temperatures.
In fact, this past summer, scientists collected samples of water and ice specifically to see if things called extremophiles, tiny lifeforms that are evolved to live in completely hostile conditions, might be living under the ice, kind of like what they hope to find on the
polar
icecaps of Mars someday.
But, of course, the natural world,
polar
bears.
Yet when I talk to them about my work on carbon capture, I find that they're equally amazed, and that's because combatting climate change by capturing carbon isn't just about saving a
polar
bear or a glacier.
Just imagine that your friends and your family have heard that you collect, say, stuffed
polar
bears, and they send them to you.
Even if you don't really, at a certain point, you totally collect stuffed
polar
bears, and your collection is probably pretty kick-ass.
So for example, this is one of probably thousands of letters and drawings that kids sent to the Bush administration, begging it to protect the
polar
bear under the Endangered Species Act, and these were sent back in the mid-2000s, when awareness of climate change was suddenly surging.
We kept seeing that image of a
polar
bear stranded on a little ice floe looking really morose.
If you can see, it's a
polar
bear that's drowning and then it's also being eaten simultaneously by a lobster and a shark.
He says, "I feel bad about the
polar
bears.
I like
polar
bears.
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