Exhausted polar bear rests in scotland

http://www.countrylife.co.uk/countryside/article/448935/Polar+bear+washes+up+on+Scotland%27s+Isle+of+Mull.html

At first I thought this was related to global warming because he had to swim so far, with his normal icy havens gone, but---the article treats it as the opposite, that with colder than normal temperatures he floated further on an ice floe than normally possible. The photo above is on the Isle of Mull. No sense of how far Scotland is from Greenland.