Kids: Goodbye polar bears?
The future looks pretty bad for polar bears. According to a recent report, Earth’s polar bears could be two-thirds gone by 2050 – that’s only 43 years from now.
The reports says that the shrinking bear population is a direct result of melting ice in their Arctic habitat because of global warming.
Polar bears need the sea ice to stand on when they hunt seals, their primary food. But there’s less sea ice throughout their Arctic range due to climate change.
A science team reached these conclusions by spending six months studying data on polar bears and their habitat. The team documented the direct relationship between the Arctic sea ice and the survival and health of polar bears.
More bad news … their report suggests that there is nothing humans can do to save the bears, because even if we make efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions and limit hunting, that won’t outweigh the effects of habitat loss.
Read more: Could penguins and polar bears swap habitats?
Why dont they move some to antarctica since it is getting warmer there?
Bob,
For your answer, check out the link (above): Could penguins and polar bears swap habitats?
Eleanor
I think that is really sad i wish i could do something to help them is there anything that i can do that may help polar bears?
The polar bears should be fine for a while. How much of the north pole has actually melted away? If some much has melted then how come there isnt much of a rise in sea level? Although I do wonder how we can help polar bears directly. I mean the only way well help em out is if we stop polluting our planet.
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I LOVE POLAR BEARS!!!!!!!! I WISH THEY WERENT ALL GOIN TO DIE
they wont.
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Yes, I believe the polar bear are threatened, and many other species. It appears the environment is being degraded by tons of pollutants and the resources of Earth are being dissipated faster than the planet can restore them for human benefit.
As a community, from top to bottom, we have to find ways to succeed in talking about the vital issues of our time, the tabooed ones which are socially unpopular, politically incorrect and economically inexpedient.
We have noted in many places the ominously looming global challenges that array themselves before humanity on the far horizon. Because these challenges appear to be derived for certain overgrowth activities of the human species, it seems to me that human beings are called upon TO ADAPT by changing our behavior, according to the practical requirements of biophysical reality.
Of all the things that appear as threats to human and environmental health, there is nothing I fear more than SILENCE. It is the abject failure of leadership within the human community to break the pernicious silence that keeps our brothers and sisters from recognizing clear and soon to be present perils…and then responding ably. Leaders seem to be turning their backs, or placing their heads in the sand, or suffering from hysterical blindness, willful deafness and elective mutism. Take your pick. We are denying good science, reason and common sense.
The silence will be broken…hopefully sooner rather than later. At least to me, it does not appear that time or current circumstances favor those who care for the future of life as we know it on Earth. The self-proclaimed masters of the universe, these children of men, are in possession of some considerable sources of power. Thankfully, all of these heirs of Ozymandias, taken together, are not in control of all the sources of power, as they suppose.
The times, they are changing.
Thanks for discussing the real issues.
Polar bears are the biggest meat eating mamals. Those things can eat you. They deserve to live, not die from habitat loss.
World renown sceptical environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg writes polar bear numbers have increased from 5000 to 25,000 worldwide during the 40 year period of global warming since WW II. (SMH 27/9/07). Yet some persist with the “Goodbye polar bear” mania. The “demise” of the polar bear now symbolises global warming. My question to you guys is “How will they fit the extra 20,000 bears on that block of ice used in all the advertising?”
Thats interesting. People are crazy. It takes one crazy person to scare alot of people.People waste a lot of money writing stories on endangered animals and that we should do something. That money should go to help what evr they are scared about.
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i thonk that the government should do some thing about that or we need to start to try our selves baecause those bears are a beuty to our nature land and we need to take care of it because if we dont no one will and if no one does who will let think about it
Because antartica is getting hotter so it makes the place melt..