If a picture is worth a thousand words, a stranded polar bear atop a floating block of ice is shorthand for the narrative of catastrophic climate change.

In the early 2000s, climate alarmists turned the blubbery, seal-munching predators into a visually compelling and emotionally resonant symbol of receding ice and rising sea levels.

Abstract data about atmospheric chemistry was translated into a visible threat to something cute and cuddly.

There is no firm evidence that polar bear populations have declined in the two decades since they became international movie stars in Al Gore's ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.

In any case, the creatures are, by nature, socially withdrawn.

They are also exceptional swimmers.

Evolution has gifted them eyes near the top of their skulls for that purpose.

If

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