NBC: Polar Bears Like ‘Passengers on the Titanic’ Because of Global Warming – Polar Bear Expert Ridicules Claims

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NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams warned of 'the habitat of the polar bears melting earlier and faster than ever' and promised 'a jaw-dropping look at a way of life quickly disappearing.' -- a sound bite ran of Steve Amstrup, chief scientist of Polar Bears International proclaiming: "Liken it to the passengers on the Titanic. It didn't matter how many people were on the Titanic or how well they were doing, when the Titanic slipped beneath the waves and they lost their habitat, that was it. Polar bears will also go away because of their dependence on the sea ice."

Polar Bear Expert Ridicules: 'This is absolutely ridiculous, fear-mongering hyperbole — no models predict all bears will die, even given their worst-case scenerio...On top of that, we now know that many of the critical assumptions those models are based on are wrong'

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