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Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 258 - 10.12.16

#inktober2016 "Worried" And for this National Wildlife Refuge Week a quick reminder that this whole Post Card Project is about encouraging President Obama to provide further "refuge" and protection to Alaska's coastal plain. Celebrate #NationalWildlifeRefugeWeek by helping protect the #ArcticRefuge once and for all http://bit.ly/wearethearctic_action #WeAreTheArctic #inktober

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 358 - 10.12.16

#inktober2016 "Worried" And for this National Wildlife Refuge Week a quick reminder that this whole Post Card Project is about encouraging President Obama to provide further "refuge" and protection to Alaska's coastal plain. Celebrate #NationalWildlifeRefugeWeek by helping protect the #ArcticRefuge once and for all http://bit.ly/wearethearctic_action #WeAreTheArctic #inktober

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 257 -10.11.16

"Transport" #inktober2016 If only we put as much universal care and attention into protecting our wild spaces as we do to protecting our commerce... Fragile stuff. Handle with care! #wearethearctic

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 256 - 10.10.16

For the #inktober2016 prompt "Jump" and, on this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Post Card Project and We Are The Arctic stand with the Gwich’in, who rely on Arctic Refuge, and all other indigenous peoples who are calling for the protection of public lands to protect their way of life. http://bit.ly/wearethearctic_action #WeAreTheArctic #inktober

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 255 - 10.9.16

Broken #inktober2016 #saveourseaice #wearethearctic

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 254 - 10.8.16

Rock #inktober2016 Marine mammals can only swim so far. #saveourseaice #wearethearctic

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 253 - 10.7.16

Lost. #inktober2016 And to some degree this week also marks a major loss in the fight against a warming world. On Monday 10/3 the CO2 concentrations at Mauna Loa observatory reached 400ppm -- and will not likely drop below that mark again for hundreds of years. Not too long ago 350ppm was considered the tipping point for disastrous levels of global sea rise... So important that we focus our energy and intellect on solutions to reducing carbon output and reversing these trends at least as quickly as we have created them. #saveourseaice #advocate #climateaction

Harts Pass No. 318

It goes without saying what inspired this strip-- but I do feel pretty bad about ascribing any such attitude or characteristic to those of the animal persuasion...

Paid for by GRRR! The committee to elect a Gracious, Reflective, Reasonable, & Responsible creature to higher office!

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 252 - 10.6.16

I've done something like this before, but the image of a mother bear protecting her cub is a powerful one for me -- and something very much like what we witnessed last September as a large male bear emerged from the fog on a gravel bar north of Kaktovik... Hidden is the prompt here for #inktober2016 Already enough hardship and challenge living in the Arctic climes. The polar bears can deal with each other, but they are powerless when confronted with the decidedly unnatural extremes of climate change.

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 251 - 10.5.16

Sad. #inktober2016 But on a happier note, today the Paris Agreement Climate Accord reached it's 55% threshold (56.75%) for implementation. 72 of 195 countries have ratified the agreement and the new deal on climate emissions will start in 30 days!