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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Maybe we can start feeding polar bears Soylent Enviromentalists.
Reminds me of the movie SAVAGE INNOCENTS(1962) in which grandma Eskimo sacrifices herself to a polar bear to provide future food for her grandchild when the son later kills it.
Well, that’s a good sign. If a polar bear is willing to gnaw on a grissly old eskimo grandma, then maybe they would accept bleeding-heart-chow.
Lie
Since 2005, however, the estimated global polar bear population has risen by more than 30% to about 30,000 bears, far and away the highest estimate in more than 50 years. A growing number of observational studies have documented that polar bears are thriving, despite shrinking summer sea ice.Feb 27, 2017
You’d be well-compensated to make that claim; that is all there is to it. The elites understand that the growing middle classes of Asia want the same things as the West’s middle classes, so they have to lower the Western standard of living to meet the rising standard of living over there; they don’t want a few billion Asians driving private automobiles and heating/cooling private homes.
The headline ‘weasel word’ is COULD...
You would think progressives would be ecstatic? With the tree lines moving so far north as the ice retreats, the hugging opportunities will be plentiful.
Such BS. That must be why the polar bear population has exploded. And they are reporting a study from a high school student
Yes! Round them up and move them to China, India and Southern Russia. Those places do not suffer the effects of climate change.
Polar Bears don’t look threatended to me. I seen them on tv building a snowman and sitting around drinking coca-cola.
Oh yes the physiological connection between Globull warming and a functioning human body.
Come to think of it I have noticed a marked increase in gas lately and wondered if this could be linked to globull warming.
I would really love to have something on which to blame my condition.
Or not.
Well, our “science” is now in the hands of mentally retarded teenagers.
How can that possibly fail?
tru dat...
i hope people on the left start to wise up, before getting hurt is their only option...
Merry Christmas my FRiend
If warming is "bad" why then is the greatest biodiversity on the planet found along the equator? I've never gotten a proper response from any human induced global warming (sorry, "Climate Change") believer when I posed that question to them. They just believe whatever nonsense is poured into their skulls, never examining the actual science but trusting in computer modeling, altered data, and the motives of "experts" whose dream is a world rid of all humanity (besides themselves and a select few of their friends).
Good little products of Marxist indoctrinated ignorance coupled with hypocrisy. They can't even see the irony that their belief in our power to influence a planetary climate matches how the cosmos was conceived in the Middle Ages. Or naked primitives dancing round a fire to bring rain. Essentially, they're in the same boat as Flat Earthers.
Good points.
Plus they know nothing of the Natural History of Planet Earth.
Climate changes. Period. Always has. Always will.
Species come. Species go.
99% of all species that have ever lived are extinct.
But the mentally retarded teenagers who represent the new class of Climate Experts know absolutely nothing of any of this.
How could they?
By definition.
>> just by asking random high school students.
Not random. Only girl opinions count as fact.
Just don’t bring the bears here. Planned Parenthood would abort them.
“I’ll take the mentally retarded teens over mentally retarded corrupt legislators, for $500, Alex”
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