zoos http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/15066/all en 'Superstar' Knut: Poster Bear for Warming Dangers No More http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/superstar-knut-poster-bear-warming-dangers-no-more <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/julia-seymour">Julia A. Seymour</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <div class="field-label-inline"> By</div> <a href="/author/edward-schatz">Edward Schatz</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Maybe he’ll fare better than other aging child stars, but for now, he’s something of an embarrassment. Cute and cuddly sold climate panic. Predatory and perilous does not.</p><p>Two years ago on March 23, Knut the polar bear cub who was saved by zookeepers debuted at the Berlin Zoo.</p><p>According to “Good Morning America,” “he was one of the biggest stars in the world.” Knut was “big business” for the zoo, but also for environmentalists and their global warming alarmist agenda.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/superstar-knut-poster-bear-warming-dangers-no-more" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Climate Change alarmism arctic BerlinZoo cbs ClimateChange GlobalWarming GoodMorningAmerica icemelt Knut LeonardoDiCaprio polarbear Reuters ScottPelley Time VanityFair zoos Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:49:56 +0000 admin 26900 at http://archive2.mrc.org