Posted on 02/01/2023 3:24:38 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In January 2023, a polar bear in Alaska attacked and killed a mother and her one-year-old son, the first fatal mauling of its kind in over 30 years. However, these types of interactions between humans and animals may become increasingly common due to the growing threat of climate change. Here's everything you need to know:
Why might the polar bear attack be attributed to climate change?
Polar bears have been acutely affected by the warming planet because arctic ice is rapidly shrinking. "It is rare for polar bears to attack humans, although anecdotal evidence suggests the frequency is increasing," David Meanwell, director of the nonprofit Bear Conservation, told Newsweek.
Why are animal-human interactions becoming more frequent?
Human-animal interactions have been on the rise, increasing "in frequency and severity," per an article in the journal Science. One of the forms of interactions is conflict, including attacks like the Alaska mauling.
What are other consequences of human-animal interactions?
Human-animal interactions don't just end on the macro-scale. Increased contact can also lead to the increased spread of disease.
These interactions will only become more frequent as climate change becomes more severe.
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i thought polar bears were funloving, coke drinking, huggable little fur balls?
Yahoo just brings out the stupidity!
Is there anything climate change can’t do?
Yeah... We best stay of the streets in the blue cities...
We kill them and eat them?
You’re Hilarious with your global warming crap
No 9mm for me. If polar bears are going to become a problem I’ll need a bigger gun.
More like animals who eat bugs will attack, as Gates wants to have you eat their food..bugs.
FOOD-GATE, CONTROL THE FOOD, YOU CONTROL THE ‘PEOPLE’! People fear hunger.
https://gailhonadle.substack.com/p/food-gate-control-the-food-you-control
“Here’s everything you need to know” the journo writes. Utterly shameless . . .
Only yahoos believe Yahoo.
Data is NOT the plural of anecdote.
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Good point. Remember when hundreds of instances of success in treating covid with Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were dismissed with the word, anecdotal?
But a single incident is evidence of global warming?
There is a serious deficit of intellectual integrity in that crowd.
When Al Gore was born there were 8,000 polar bears. Today only 30,000 remain. 😏
🐂💩
Human beings make up 0.0625% of the mass of all life on earth, and 5.83 x 10^-12% of the earth’s mass.
Water vapor makes up 95% of the earth’s “greenhouse gases.” Carbon dioxide makes up 3.618%, and all other gases make up 1.38%.
All human activity contributes 0.28% to these “greenhouse gases.”
Anyone who believes in man-made climate change has zero intellectual integrity.
As the population of polar bears continues to increase, while hunting (poaching) drops, polar bears will become more likely to attack humans.
Didn’t Al Gore assure us that polar bears were drowning from the melting polar ice and would soon become extinct?
there were approximately 25,559 homicides in the US in 2021.
What are other consequences of human-animal interactions?
A pride of lions napping under a tree after a big meal is the give away.
Polar bears are white; therefore, clearly White Supremacy.
nope ATT does not own Yahoo, Apollo global management does
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