outdoors

Possibly the most disturbing display in the Climate Change exhibition is a diorama of a polar bear foraging on a heap of human refuse. Some people have wondered whether we made it up, as a glimpse into an imagined future. Absolutely not. The diorama is based on scientific observation: a photograph captioned “A polar bear enjoys a jar of Miracle Whip at the local dump,” which was taken in Churchill, Canada. (Go to the link and search on the words "polar bear" and "dump.") It shows what’s happening in the Arctic now.