Annual Polar Bear Migration Under Way: How It Works and How Climate Change is Altering It
But today the Hudson Bay population—and the rest of the world's 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears—is being affected by changes. Since 1979, sea
ice cover has
declined by about 30 percent in the Arctic. As greenhouse gases continue to warm the Earth, Amstrup says, polar bears are being forced ashore for longer periods of time.
If nothing changes, he says, two-thirds of all polar bears will be gone by 2050—and perhaps extinct in the wild by the end of the century.
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Say what you want about global warming, you can't deny the polar bear crisis.
Polar Bears In A Changing Climate: A Philosophical Showdown At*CITES - Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog - A Conservative Blog
If you want to read something funny, click the link above. It boils down to "We've got a lot of bears, now, so everything's cool. And if not, that's happens like, later, so, it's all good. It's just natural. It's just evolution."
Yeah, like if you flamethrower a salmon. That's just natural that the fish doesn't make it. That's just evolution.
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