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Climate change could make giving birth riskier for polar bears in northern Alaska
ABC "News" ^ | December 22, 2019 | By NALA ROGERS

Posted on 12/23/2019 5:49:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Polar bears are born into the Arctic winter blind, hairless, and no bigger than a guinea pig. For three months while storms rage and temperatures fall below -40 F, the cubs stay snug and warm in their mothers’ dens. But if current trends continue, newborn cubs along Alaska’s northern coast may instead perish out in the cold.

A new study suggests that before the end of the century, mother polar bears in this region may no longer be able to find the deep snowbanks they need to dig dens. Megan Liu, a high school student.

"They need that habitat to give birth," said Liu. Their analysis indicates that "if we don't restrict our emissions, very soon, within the century, there's going to be an extended amount of time when there's no available denning habitat for the polar bears."

Scientists have long known that climate change is hurting polar bears, but most research has focused on the loss of their sea ice hunting grounds, said Steven Amstrup, who oversaw polar bear research in Alaska for the U.S. Geological Survey for 30 years and now serves as chief scientist for Polar Bears International. Polar bears catch seals at breathing holes in the ice, so when there’s not enough sea ice, they are at risk of starvation. More than a decade ago, Amstrup and his colleagues predicted that unmitigated climate change could reduce the world’s polar bear numbers by two-thirds by the middle of the century. More recently, images of gaunt, staggering polar bears thought to be starving due to sea ice declines have stirred pity among scientists and the public.

Now, it seems climate change may rob polar bears in Northern Alaska of their nurseries as well as their hunting grounds.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arctic; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hoax; polarbears; propaganda; socialism
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To: shelterguy
Well, that’s 80 years from now. I’ll be gone by then so I would care even less than I do now.

There is copious reason to debate the statements in this article. To dismiss it (or other similar) solely because you'll be dead when the effects manifest is just selfish.

21 posted on 12/23/2019 6:03:16 AM PST by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“A new study suggests that before the end of the century, mother polar bears in this region may no longer be able to find the deep snowbanks they need to dig dens. - Megan Liu, a high school student.”

Well that settles it, they’re all going to die.


22 posted on 12/23/2019 6:03:18 AM PST by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: teeman8r

Why n=bother with higher education. Straws have been banned due to a 9 year old kid’s science fair project and now this from a high school kid.

liberals are mindless idiots


23 posted on 12/23/2019 6:03:24 AM PST by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gheeze, who dreams up this $hit?


24 posted on 12/23/2019 6:04:07 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I remember when the misinformtion about the Alaskan pipeline and the caribou was spread about birthing calves. Polar bears den to keep warm. If the temperatures are higher, why do they need to den to keep warm? Same misconception. Another lie about “climate change.”

rwood


25 posted on 12/23/2019 6:04:09 AM PST by Redwood71
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change could make giving birth riskier for polar bears in northern Alaska


Not so far. :)


26 posted on 12/23/2019 6:04:27 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I bet there are some people who want to see a lower polar bear population as they are becoming a menace in places.


27 posted on 12/23/2019 6:05:19 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist.I'm white.Does that mean I'm racist?)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Put in five rows of sweet corn...


28 posted on 12/23/2019 6:07:37 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is there anything that doesn’t kill polar bears? Big giant pussies.


29 posted on 12/23/2019 6:12:06 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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To: HighSierra5

The watermelons are much more red than they are green. They don’t want to save the planet. They want commie power. Power over us. Power to blow our brains out.


30 posted on 12/23/2019 6:12:20 AM PST by samtheman (U.S. out of the U.N. --- U.N. out of the U.S.)
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To: Common Sense 101

That was demonstrated when it was illegal to destroy a bald eagle egg but commendable to destroy a human one.


31 posted on 12/23/2019 6:13:43 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What polar bears and what ice?


32 posted on 12/23/2019 6:14:26 AM PST by blackdog (Making wine cave appearances upon request.)
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To: Blue Collar Christian
I bet there are some people who want to see a lower polar bear population as they are becoming a menace in places.

It's a balance. There's currently 3.5% human caused cull rate. That's pretty high for a slow reproducing species. In the 1970's they were becoming locally extinct due to hunting.

33 posted on 12/23/2019 6:14:42 AM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways to Sunday)
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To: Damifino

“”””There is copious reason to debate the statements in this article. To dismiss it (or other similar) solely because you’ll be dead when the effects manifest is just selfish. “”””

Maybe this is your first time reading an article on climate hysteria or something. NOBODY here takes these endless fake but accurate stories seriously.

The climate has been changing for billions of years. I can’t do anything about it and I don’t care.


34 posted on 12/23/2019 6:16:01 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change can also bring freezing rain instead of snow which according to the article could lead to the dens becoming unstable Death Traps when they collapse. Nothing like a little over the top climate hysteria in the name of science.


35 posted on 12/23/2019 6:16:07 AM PST by freefdny
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To: Common Sense 101

“...vile, disgusting, evil libtard scum are all for killing a human baby up to the time of birth...”

“up to the time of birth” is just for now. It will eventually evolve to killing anyone inconvenient. They already say as much.


36 posted on 12/23/2019 6:16:38 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist.I'm white.Does that mean I'm racist?)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Yeah, maybe Sue Aikens from Life Below Zero can lease me a couple of acres by Kavik camp.

Note to ask: Can I shoot any caribou that tries to eat the corn?


37 posted on 12/23/2019 6:17:28 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And the Alaskan pipeline was going to destroy the caribou population in Alaska and the Yukon, right?

Who was alive in the 1970s to remember that? Who knows what actually happened?

38 posted on 12/23/2019 6:18:11 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Climate induced late term abortions.

With a two fer, I would take my position and go home quietly with full validation if I were a progessive.

39 posted on 12/23/2019 6:18:22 AM PST by blackdog (Making wine cave appearances upon request.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

> Megan Liu, a high school student <

First Greta Thunberg, and now her.

But wait. There is a silver lining in all this. Evidently we don’t need college science departments anymore. So shut them down, and save a ton of money. We can get all the scientific facts we need just by asking random high school students.


40 posted on 12/23/2019 6:18:56 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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