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Posted on 12/12/2025 11:07:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive.
The species is being forced to adapt to the harsher reality of a warming Arctic, in what scientists believe is the first documented case of rising temperatures driving genetic change in a mammal.
Researchers from the University of East Anglia in Britain say these findings, published Friday in the journal Mobile DNA, offer a rare glimmer of hope for the species.
"Polar bears are still sadly expected to go extinct this century, with two-thirds of the population gone by 2050," Alice Godden, who is the lead author of the study, told NBC News.
"I believe our work really does offer a glimmer of hope — a window of opportunity for us to reduce our carbon emissions to slow down the rate of climate change and to give these bears more time to adapt to these stark changes in their habitats."
The study "does not mean that polar bears are at any less risk of extinction,” Godden said, though the discovery may “provide a genetic blueprint for how polar bears might be able to adapt quickly to climate change.”
Godden added: "We all must do more to mitigate our carbon emissions to help provide and extend this window of opportunity to help save this wonderful vital species."
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I’m looking forward to seeing a polar bear on a broken piece of ice floating down here to SC. Would make the beach pretty exciting!
ROFL.
These “News” orgs are funny.
“Polar bears are still sadly expected to go extinct this century, with two-thirds of the population gone by 2050,” Alice Godden, who is the lead author of the study, told NBC News.
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The study “does not mean that polar bears are at any less risk of extinction,” Godden said,
University of East Anglia - They should change the name to University of Charlatans.
So, what’s the problem, then?
What scientist left the Crispr gene editing software and appliances back at the Artic outpost? Of course the bears are going to want to self improve. Duh.
East Anglia... Of “lets fake all the data to “prove” man made global warming” fame?
Milder winter are not a “harsher reality”. I seem to recall reading that polar bear populations are increasing, not decreasing
University of East Anglia climategate?
“Polar bears are still sadly expected to go extinct this century, with two-thirds of the population gone by 2050”
They keep saying this, but their numbers have risen on the north slope.
> East Anglia... Of “lets fake all the data to “prove” man made global warming” fame?
Wait, those misbegotten morons are still around, and publishing???
I thought after decades of scandals, faked data, and withdrawn publications, they would have vaporized by now. Or at least had the good sense to SHUT THE F**K UP!!!
BS.
Their blood acting differently doesn’t imply genetic adaptation, especially under such a small amount of time of “climate change”.
When my parents moved to Florida from the snowy cold north they became hyper sensitized to the cold when they came back to visit. Part of that was age but some of that is adaptation to the environment but it’s not EVOLUTION.
Move the northern bears south and I bet you’ll see the same blood changes.
Global cooling, global warming, climate change, same old same old. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Can one change one’s genetics any more than one can change one’s sex?
In 2008, Al Gore said that the arctic might be permanently free of ice by 2014. We’ve only got 6 years left!
The same “experts” declared that all of the Artic and Antarctic ice would be gone in 1995....2001....2012........
I believe that from now on I will think of the word ‘expectorant’ every time I read the word “expert.”
Here in Virginia, we experienced the coolest summer I can remember and are experiencing the coldest fall that I can remember.
OMG, You can adapt to climate change??? Why wasn’t I told?????? This changes everything!!!
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