A polar bear has mauled a young British tourist to death and seriously injured four others in Norway, authorities in the country have confirmed.
The governor’s office in Svalbard district confirmed all those involved were male and had been camping near the remote Von Postbreen glacier.
She said one of the group shot the bear, and the rest were in shock.
(Source: BiasedBroadcastingCompany)
Very sad news! Any death is regrettable but the death of the worldwide icon for global warming is particularly sad. But as someone’s family will be suffering a loss I will leave my comment at that.
Addendum
I was intrigued by the way the polar bear researcher changed with scientific misconduct hit the headlines when it seemed a pretty small issue without much relevance today many years after their “discovery” of dead bears “drowned because of ice loss”.
Obviously a story about single furry animal is far more interesting to a lot of people than real science and real scientific misconduct. On that basis, I wonder whether this one single attack will do more to undermine the image of polar bears and through that discredit the global warming scam than any real science.
The fact is that anyone that knows about polar bears knows they are vicious killers and it should be no surprise given the increasing Arctic tourism that someone would be killed. The death rate from polar bears will never match that of driving children to school, but the ability of the British public to react aversely to minuscule risk has never ceased to amaze me.
Personally, I think it is fantastic that these children were able to go to the Arctic. I wish I could afford it for my own children and I don’t think the sad death of one individual should ever lead to a mass campaign to smother all children in cotton wool (unless the risk is from their own parent’s driving) … but it always has in the past!
