PORTLAND, Maine — Maine’s largest conservation advocacy organization is using the frosty ocean waters to raise money in the name of global warming.
The Natural Resources Defense Council’s annual Polar Bear Plunge raises money to support the group’s work to reduce pollution it says contributes to global warming.
Saturday’s plunge takes place at noon at Portland’s East End Beach. It is preceded by a 5-kilometer walk and run that ends at the beach.
About 40 people took part in last year’s event.
Please, no photos this year…still trying to shake off the images from the last go-round
Still pulling the teats of the global warming cash cow? Hurry! The udder on that scam has almost run dry.
DANG!
1000 likes for that one.
And Exxon/Mobil has no vested interest in denying global warming. Wake up.
Denying it won’t make it go away.
And with no proof that its more than normal climate fluctuations certainly doesn’t make it real.
Other than the facts and science, excepting those bought and paid for by big oil.
See my reply to Earthling3.
None are so blind as those who won’t look in both directions.
God told me that there has been global climate change.
Brilliant. Normal climate fluctuations returning us to Precambrian conditions. Must be normal, because it’s happened before, right? So what if life has evolved to exist in current conditions. Reversing 3 billion years of evolution in a few decades is no big deal. Happens all the time.
That is pathetic. Modern man has been around for a heartbeat in earth’s history. The last ice age in NA was only 10-12 thousand years ago. How did the “native americans” get here w/o the bering strait walk-over?!
Most of all, do some research on the ‘Little Ice Age’ from the +/-1400’s to the early 1800’s! Sheese! IT FLUCTUATES! It maybe happening and maybe because of us, but not proven! I don’t want to take my time with someone that won’t take the time to research Both sides!
Happy New Year and peace…
Actually, I first started researching global warming in about 1978. Of course the climate changes naturally over time. The changes are only cyclic in the sense that sometimes it’s colder and sometimes it’s warmer – it’s not as if there’s a predictable recurring pattern of certain duration and known limits. Regardless of whether the current trend is anthropogenic or not, the trend is established and documented. If it continues long enough, civilization as we know it will be in some serious doo-doo. Pretending it’s not happening will not help our descendants at all. Investigating potential causes and possible mitigation techniques may be futile, but it just might help, too.
As yet, no satisfactory explanation for the cause of the Younger Dryas – that “Little Ice Age” you refer to – has been found. The once-popular theory attributing it to a Tunguska-like exploding comet or swarm of comets has been discarded due to a lack of corroborative evidence that should be readily available if it were correct. There is evidence that similar events have happened in the past, during previous interglacial periods. If we could figure out what caused them, that type of additional knowledge about how weather works at large time scales might be very useful in accurately predicting and actively mitigating potential large-scale climate variations in the future. Climate change can mess us up, big time. Not paying attention is like sleeping on railroad tracks. Maybe a train won’t come, and everything will be fine in the morning. Or maybe a train WILL come.
If you look at some of the more recent research regarding Native Americans, the evidence is starting to make it look more likely that they came over hopscotching from point to point along the edge of the ice sheet in small boats, rather than in the traditional “following the mammoths across the Bering Land Bridge” method. In fact, it’s not at all unlikely that they might have gotten here before the glaciers advanced, though there’s no direct evidence of it. Look at the Polynesians. They sailed across thousands of miles of ocean, jumping from island to island, without the benefit of modern technology. The first Americans had similar technology and motivation, what’s to prevent them from island-hopping along the Aleutians?
Happy New Year to you, too.
“Actually, I first started researching global warming in about 1978.”
Isn’t that right about the time Stephen Schneider switched from being a global cooling alarmist to being a global warming alarmist?
Investigating the causes of global warming is, of course, a legitimate subject of scientific inquiry. The problem is that the science has become politicized, which makes it no longer science. Big Environment has used its assertion that AGW is “proven” to advance its leftist agenda for years now. Scientists who dissent from the AGW theory are ignored, marginalized and attacked.
Questioning whether global warming, or climate change, is caused by human activity is not the same as denying that any change in climate is occurring at all. The argument rests in the “why.”
I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that you are not a climatologist.
And I’m going to stand firmly on the ground and guess that neither are you. We both only know what we’ve read, but I choose to read both sides. There is -no-proof either way.
Fortunately there are mountains of actual scientific data to indicate that it is real and anthropogenic though you may not like what that means. Your statement reveals your bias towards a status quo friendly finding.
Yea global warming in Maine waters. It is to cold in southern Maine in the summer to swim in the ocean much less the winter. Why don’t they come up here to Washington co and try it. Even the Navy Seals Used to come to the Winter Harbor base and swim sometimes maybe they could try there.
I believe you mistake weather for climate. Count the days over the next ten years you can track deer in the snow in November and watch them decline.
Aside from the Exxon Mobil pimps posting here
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/ExxonMobil-GlobalWarming-tobacco.html
as always the choice resides with the reader to get the facts and empower themselves.
I love watching the weather reports on Channel WABI 5 and Channel WCSH 6
when they talk about the record breaking weather patterns we continue to have each day.
Then they cut to the SUV car ads
Radio, television and the print media teach us to buy not to be.
To buy and not to be , that is the question.
see http://www.heatisonline.org
How about taking a fishing trip with Captain Kipnis ,eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywCtjdeRGkE
Global warming is a myth.
Global warming is a fact. Get your story straight. You’re supposed to say global warming is not caused by manmade carbon emmissions. Even the Exxon scientists know how to spin better than that.
No, but everything that conservatives preach…………
You wish.
It is a thoroughly documented fact that since man has been spewing carbon into the atmosphere with his combustion technologies and methane from his livestock the global temperatures have been increasing. Why is it considered a conservative viewpoint that this is just a coincidence?
You might want to stop breathing and help save the planet!!