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How polar bears became a controversial symbol of the climate crisis


How polar bears became a controversial symbol of the climate crisis

The idea of polar bears ceasing to exist might motivate people to care about climate change, how accurate is this imagery in conveying a message about a global ...

Why the climate movement doesn't talk about polar bears anymore

Starting about two decades ago, National Geographic and the like began churning out images of lonely, hungry bears adrift on melting ice floes, ...

The Polar Bear as a Climate Icon

Polar bears have long served as a symbol of climate change, but in recent years, images of wildfires, floods, droughts, and other impacts ...

Why polar bears are no longer the poster image of climate change

For decades distressed polar bears on distant ice caps were an emblem for climate change – until experts began to doubt the effectiveness of ...

Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say?

The image of a polar bear stranded on melting sea ice is often used as a symbol of the world's rapidly changing climate. Yet every now and ...

Bearing Witness? Polar Bears as Icons for Climate Change ...

The polar bear has been termed the “poster child” of climate change (Owen & Swaisgood, Citation2008, p. 123) and has apparently become iconic of ...

How Polar Bears Became a Political Symbol

“Thanks in large measure to the work of Monnett and [co-author Jeffrey] Gleason, the polar bear became the official mascot for climate-change ...

The Polar Bear, Climate Change's Poster Child, Ignites Controversy

Twenty years ago, polar bears made people think of Coca-Cola. Ten years ago, the bruins became the face of climate change because their ...

The polar bear, more than just a symbol of the threatened polar region

If the image of a skinny bear lost on a piece of sea ice is often used, it's because it symbolizes the effects of climate change and the ...

Are polar bears an important symbol of climate change? - Quora

A benevolent sort of captivity can keep Polar bears quite healthy in a warm climate. They can be fed the fat-rich diet they need, ...

Climate Threat to Polar Bears: Despite Facts, Doubters Remain

But in the months since Kempthorne's decision, global warming skeptics have insisted that the climate change models used by the panel of experts ...

Exploring the Symbolic Representations of the Polar Bear by Non ...

Furthermore, polar bears are inextricably bound to climate change, and their survival in the wild is tied to that of the melting ice caps and warming climate ...

Polar Bears Are An Accidental Icon of Climate Change

The bears emerged as poignant symbol of climate change after long-term studies linked shrinking sea ice with serious impacts on their populations.

Beyond polar bears? Re‐envisioning climate change - Manzo - 2010

Gore's magnum opus An Inconvenient Truth (2006) contains only one image of polar bears, a photograph of a mother bear and her cub shot in Norway ...

The Polar Bear as National Symbol and Emblem of Conservation

When climate change became a pressing political issue, zoos that had closed polar bear exhibits or were planning to do so because of their ...

The polar bear as national symbol and emblem of conservation - UPI

When climate change became a pressing political issue, zoos that had closed polar bear exhibits or were planning to do so because of their high ...

Polar bear becomes unlikely symbol of melting Arctic - Health ...

Global warming and overhunting could diminish the polar bear population by at least 30 percent in coming decades, the International Union for ...

The Inconvenient Truth About Polar Bears - NPR

Stories of thinning Arctic ice and even polar bear cannibalism combined to make these predators into a powerful symbol in the debate about climate change.

A hauntological study of polar bear imagery in climate communication

Polar bears have become the 'poster child' of climate change (Garfield, 2007). Bear images feature heavily in NGO campaigns, news media, and ...

Polar bears: Threatened species or political pawn? | CBC News

Reports of the polar bear's dwindling population have made it an ideal symbol for the effects of climate change. But some say those numbers ...