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Polar Bears And Global Warming
Starving Polar Bears and Global Warming
What legacy are we leaving for our children? What kind of wildlife will they know in their lifetime? What is happening with Polar Bears and global warming is not just shame but is a tragedy. One day the only legacy we will have for future generations of children is show them books and say, remember the polar bears?”
Thanks to documentaries shown on the National Geographic Channel, news of the polar bears and global warming is common knowledge and we must act now before it is too late.
No discussion about the far north and melting ice caps is complete without and investigation of the conditions facing polar bears and global warming. Greenhouse gas emission is the culprit of global warming and is the result of polar bears losing their natural habitats. Polar bears live on the ice above the water. They prosper in the very cold artic temperatures.
Since the temperatures have warmed up, the polar bear population has diminished by a quarter of what they once were; in other words they are down by about 25,000 just in the last twenty years. Furthermore, polar bears are recorded as weighing as much as 1,700 pounds to support their stature of up to 10 feet tall. Scientists are seeing their weight rapidly decline. The females are particularly thinning down. This weight loss is affecting their ability to produce offspring. Instead of producing their usual three cubs per litter, they are now only producing one. Future generations of polar bears are clearly at risk of extinction.
A cruel death from starvation is facing polar bears and global warming once again is the reason for it. Polar bears are unable to find the foods that they normally eat. Polar bears are known to travel more than 20,000 miles looking for food in order to survive. Seals are their main food source. However ribbon seals, bearded, spotted, and ringed seals, all inhabiting the ice and waters off of Alaska’s shores are also diminishing in numbers. U.S. reviews are going on to determine their status as an endangered species.
Polar bears are used to swimming more than a 100 miles to look for food but, because of their weakened physique and the fact that ice is melting much of the land surface, they cannot swim the extended distance from one ice surface to another. Polar bears are becoming more and more isolated on small ice surfaces surrounded entirely by water. They are slowing starving to death; too weak to swim to safety and to find food.
The evidence regarding polar bears and global warming is so persuasive that the U.S. Department of The Interior has added them to the endangered species list with the mention of “threatened species,” This status refers to a species whose existence will likely die out in the future if their habitat continues to fail to sustain their needs. What makes this event incredible is that this is the first animal to be added to the endangered species list because of global warming.
News About Global Warming
More Americans say global warming exaggerated: poll (Reuters via Yahoo! News) 11 Mar 2010 at 4:08pm
A growing number of Americans, nearly half the country, think global warming worries are exaggerated and more people doubt that scientific warnings of severe environmental fallout will ever occur, according to a new Gallup poll.
Americans Show Less Concern About Global Warming (Update1) (BusinessWeek) 11 Mar 2010 at 2:58pm
Americans are less concerned about the threat of climate change than they were two years ago and almost half say the seriousness of global warming is overblown, a Gallup Organization Inc. poll shows.
Independent review of IPCC and its global warming reports: an answer to criti... 11 Mar 2010 at 3:27pm
Top international scientists will take part in an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its reports on global warming, which have been widely criticized recently for inaccuracies.
Is the global warming movement cooling? (USA Today) 11 Mar 2010 at 12:19am
The "climategate" controversy has contributed to a fundamental shift in efforts to stop global warming.
Scientists urge Senate action on global warming (The Christian Science Monitor) 11 Mar 2010 at 10:56am
In a move to shore up credibility for climate change science, American scientists and economists are asking the Senate to enact immediate legislation to reduce emissions related to global warming.
Poll: Less concern about global warming (UPI) 11 Mar 2010 at 8:08am
PRINCETON, N.J., March 11 (UPI) -- Forty-eight percent of U.S. residents asked now believe the seriousness of global warming is exaggerated, a poll by the Gallup Organization indicates.
POLL - More Americans say global warming exaggerated (The Star) 11 Mar 2010 at 3:02pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A growing number of Americans, nearly half the country, think global warming worries are exaggerated, as more people also doubt that scientific warnings of severe environmental fallout will ever occur, according to a new Gallup poll.
Conservatives' Doubts About Global Warming Grow (Gallup) 11 Mar 2010 at 2:51pm
Thirty percent of political conservatives currently believe the effects of global warming are already occurring, down substantially from 50% in 2008. Liberals' perceptions haven't changed much. Both groups are more likely now than in 2008 to believe the seriousness of global warming is exaggerated.
Gallup poll shows Americans less worried about global warming threat (USA Today) 11 Mar 2010 at 11:43am
Gallup says the American public in the past two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming, and less convinced that its effects are already taking place.
Jake Schmidt: Where Do Things Stand on International Efforts to Address Globa... 11 Mar 2010 at 4:00pm
Nearly three months after the Copenhagen Accord was hammered out by 28 key countries in the world, where do things stand on international efforts to address global warming?
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