Dear me so many doubters as to the reality of global warming. I assume you draw on the statisitcs provided by the scientific community of the USA. The most polluting nation on the planet.
Any gardener, any observer of the natural world will verify things are not as they should be.
Glaciers are melting, flooding, hurricanes and drought are increasing. The argument as to the rights and wrongs of filming polar bears in the wild or in a German zoo is pathetic. Would you risk the lifes of a Polar Bear and its offspring by attempting to record close ups of the nature we see in frozen planet. I applaud the BBC and Sir David Attenburgh for yet another outstanding record of life on our planet. One day if we are not very very carefull programmes such as these may be the only record of life as it was. Lets be honest in the end mans greed will be his downfall. The desire for a quick fix will be our undoing unless we change. It is possible to live and let live. It is possible to develope green alternatives to everything we simply need the desire and commitment . I fear that by the time we wake up and stop destroying our planet, it will be too late. We have only one home and we cant move house. Anyway to the idiots who are in denial I say wake up. I shall be buying Frozen Planet I think its amazing.

Polar bears get born- Polar bears die- What they don't do is get stuck on 'Melting' ice flow! The real hypocrisy is the presentation of the global warming aspect and describing normal arctic changes to the ice cap as abnormal and not pointing out the increase in the antarctic ice cap. The planet is getting colder- get your woolies on, it's called 'Climate change' and has been around for ever. The insignificant amount of CO2 produced by burning fossil fuels does not affect the climate!

The BBC has already sold its soul to the greens (e.g. see http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/), and the blessed RA had already been taken in by them, so this is more important than it would seem at first glance. The Brtis really do have a state broadcaster committed to climate alarm propaganda, and suppressing well-informed criticism of such alarmism. Not a pretty sight in a country once famed for freedoms.

Oh My God. I am so offended at being lied to the BBC over the birth of the Polar Bears. I thinkI will hot trot it to my solicitors and sue the Beeb for mentally anquish and stress. To be lied to in such a way is truly dispicable and not what I though they BBC would do. These factual programmes are meant to be factual and not stage managed.

Do I mean these comments?. Course I don't.

The Frozen Planet series as every other wildlife series the BBC does are worth the licence fee alone and I fully support the explanations given by the BBC as to why the cubs were filimed being born in captivity. Does it matter that that they were. No it doesnt. The fact that you witnessed them being born is still great viewing.
Do these people who claim they were deceived by the BBC think that television isn't stage managed anyway. It is because it has to be and a good load of editing has to be done to make a programme.
And in case you think that the weather man is standing in front of a map of Great Britain when he is telling you the weather. He is not. He is standing infont a blank chromakey screen.

So I have one comment to say to you lot who are complaining. You really need to get a life and get out into the world more. You are sad individuals.

It sounds very much like one of Toady Bliars explanations of his inexcusable dishonesty.

I absolutely loved the series, and it doesn't concern me one bit that this very difficult and complicated scene was filmed elsewhere.
The habitat was fully explained and it would have been very irresponsible, to say nothing of potentially dangerous, to be in close proximity with a nursing female polar bear and cubs for months on end.

This series, as with all of Sir David's series in the past, was informative, eye-opening and extremely well presented.
In my opinion, the series loses none of its impact, relevance, accuracy & importance as a result.

to be honest i really enoyed "Frozen planet"............... it was great...............but for those saddos get a life and stop knitpicking...................

do people have nothing better to do than complain out a truely fantastic program. do people really think you would be able to film this in the wild. David has brought incredible facts to us over many years and those who fell it necessary to moan are very sad..

I think Kathryn Jeffs was absolutely correct in her explanation about the film. As we have seen from the `Freeze Frame` footage at the end of each episode the boys filming it are lucky to be alive. It`s a wonder they`ve still got all of their fingers and toes. Filming when they can over months on end ? Minus 50 degrees and colder? 80 mph winds and stronger? No thanks! My hat`s off to you boys!

Hmm - I wonder how many more of my non offensive comments are going to deleted by the AOL thought police?

How ridiculous. There is no greater fan of The Frozen Planet than me and I certainly wasn't outraged. Anyone with an ounce of common sense would have realised that this wasn't the real thing - an arctic bear's nest .
This is a wonderful series with superb cinematography. Who is trying to whip up a controversy?

It was filmed in a Dutch zoo not a German zoo.
please correct this in this article and the related articles.

Bit of an ice storm in a teacup!

does it really matter