Oh, don't worry! Polar bears regularly climb onto tiny bits of ice and perform a humorous little "ice-floe wallow" sort of dance for naturalist photographers. It has nothing to do with global warming! Nothing to see here but a cute little bear! Ain't he cute?
Actually, that's not an iceberg remnant, it's a whale's blow that's lifting the polar bear (who had been swimming) out of the water. You can see a bit of a light patch on the whale under the water.
I saw the National Geographic article about this, it was a geyser caused by an underwater volcano that lifted the poor guy up into the air and then instantly froze to his fur, trapping him and taking him along for the ride.
Looks like a stray wave passing between the column and the camera at the wrong moment, and it's going to look weird because the sun is up and behind the subject and isn't giving you much shadow reference to work with at the waterline. I can easily see how the floe could be formed like that, and how a curious polar bear would get stuck on it.
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Date: 2008-08-10 12:12 pm (UTC)By the way, I gather you liked Dark Knight.
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Date: 2008-08-10 07:42 am (UTC)Don't get me wrong, the polar ice IS melting and polar bears ARE drowning but this particular image looks to be a spoof.