An Ursine Arctic Donner Party

Polar bears are eating each other:

“During 24 years of research on polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea region of northern Alaska and 34 years in northwestern Canada, we have not seen other incidents of polar bears stalking, killing, and eating other polar bears,” the scientists said.

Environmentalists contend shrinking polar ice due to global warming may lead to the disappearance of polar bears before the end of the century.

It’s George Bush’s fault of course. If only we’d signed on to Kyoto.

Actually, while it helps emphasize the surprise of the researchers, the fact that they haven’t seen it in such a short period of time tells us nothing about how common it is historically. And in any event, the American Geophysical Union says that we can’t definitively blame it on SUVs.

Sorry, Al.