[Libloather]

Scientists Debate Moving Polar Bears to Antarctica as Arctic Melts

Why can't they just swim there? On the other hand, if the ice is melting on the North Pole, why wouldn't it be melting on the South Pole? It is GLOBAL warming - no? (Sorry about that. Sometimes my common sense kicks in...)

[AndyTheBear]

Real or not, its still a joke.

[TigersEye]

The polar bears will do well the first year as they eat every Emperor penguin in sight.

[SouthTexas]

And after we move them can we have ANWR?

[NormsRevenge]

sounds like a job for Ice Truckers.

[Chode]

wait till they get a taste for penguins...

[irishtenor]

***Caught between climate change and human pressure, species are going extinct 100 times faster than at any point in human history.***

Ok, so I can think of maybe the carrier pigeon, the dodo, and good Hollywood movies stars. What else is dying out?

[Rembrandt]

Bussing didn’t work with white kids, why should it work with white bears?

[xjcsa]

While the world still debates whether climate change is even real (eye roll), the scientific community is coming back to an idea that was once considered wrongheaded and dangerous: moving species to new areas of the world as their natural habitats become inhabitable.

Probably because the idea is wrongheaded and dangerous.

[hinckley buzzard]

The whole idea is bogus. Extinction rates are minimal and the polar bear is flourishing right where it is. The fact is, sadly, journals like Science and Nature have discredited themselves from further serious consideration due to contaminated politicking like this.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

YUM!! Fresh Penguin for dinner every night for 20 years.

[TheBattman]

Where is the evidence that polar ice is melting/shrinking?

[Darth Hillary]

Modern enlightened acitvists already know that Polar bears cannot survive without Coke. They won’t drink Pepsi.

[RightWhale]

Okay. Should be entertaining to watch them round up 30,000 polar bears.

[timboslice614]

Are you serious? OK I’ll try to be nice.Why don’t polar bears just swim there? It’s a big deal to swim across from England to France across the English Channel because hardly anybody can do that.Can any living being swim from Alaska’s northern coast to Antarctica?No.Physically impossible. Point number 2)Global warming is only affecting the Antarctic peninsula with barely any melting on the rest of the continent.Ice melting down south is happening MUCH more slowly.In 100 years there may be no ice above the Arctic Circle while Antartica would remain basically unchanged.