Comments on: Scientists: Most Polar Bears Dead By 2050

Government Scientists Project Two-Thirds Drop In Bear Population Due To Global Warming

[jimfinster]

For those of you who think this does not matter:

Species in decline represent "canaries in the mine" for the human race. The polar bears are just one of many species currently being affected. I have seen estimates that we could lose 50% of all species in the next 50 years.

These changes will ultimately affect humans in a variety of ways, mostly via food production and potable water availability. This is all going to happen about the same time as the looming peak oil crisis. I am not a "doomsday" kinda guy, but this is going to get ugly. Forget your neocon vs liberal ***, this will be about survival.

[olgreyghost]

The southern bear species will move farther north as the climate warms and southern males will come across female polar bears in heat. They will breed and have hybrid cubs. These cubs will intermingle with each other or with others related to their darker furred parent and will have darker fur offspring. The polar bears will not just starve to death. They''re not that stupid. They will breed themselves into extinction...

It''s called evolution, or do government scientists believe in "creation science" instead?

[sblake63]

According to http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/b
ear-facts/polar-bear-evolution/:
"The polar bear probably first appeared roughly 200,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene."

Thus, the arctic has had ice on it at least for the last 200,000 years.

Still think global warming is just another blip in the climate?
Posted by ubrew12 at 05:18 PM : Sep 08, 2007

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Messed up logic there ****. Quoting info from a animal rights/environmentalist web site? Lets say that they are right and they have been around 200,000 years. How does that prove there was always ice up there in their habitat? Perhaps they lived in the northern areas where it has always been colder and when the ice formed they adapted and moved out onto the ice?

Think things thru logically before you spout off bull LMAO!

Next?

[sparks224]

Most people need to be whacked over the head with a two by four before they%u2019ll pay attention to anything.
In the case of global warming, the two by four hasn%u2019t quite made contact with the scull yet.
It%u2019s going to be hilarious (and too late) when it finally does.

[sparks224]

For thousands of years Man has been battling Mother Nature.
Well, now that we finally have her on the ropes, let%u2019s finish her off once and for all!
Then everything will be fine.

[jimfinster]

What a shame some of these cry baby enviromentalists wont go the same way the polor bears do.. Extinct!

Posted by sblake63 at 12:57 PM : Sep 08, 2007

Let''s all work together to make the neocons extinct first :)

[ubrew12]

According to http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/bear-facts/polar-bear-evolution/:
"The polar bear probably first appeared roughly 200,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene."

Thus, the arctic has had ice on it at least for the last 200,000 years.

Still think global warming is just another blip in the climate?

[grammawhamma]

Yes, including humans. Do you say "so what" to that?


Posted by jimfinster at 03:31 PM : Sep 08, 2007

Yes...I do. You are also an animal...no better then a bear. Human animals just think they are better then the other species...kind of like the pope thinks he runs the only true church.

[jimfinster]

So What! It''''s called evolution, species that can''''t adapt always become extinct as they have since the dawn of time.
Posted by lorinkundert at 02:24 PM : Sep 08, 2007

Yes, including humans. Do you say "so what" to that?

[michellem99-2009]

We Each Are The Caretakers.
By Barbara Ann.
I sit and ponder.
Of the earth that is home.
From my window I can
see the changes.
The pretty blue sky
of my childhood is gone.
I do miss its colour.
Today it a hazy blue.
As I walk to the places.
I notice the heat.
More so as it is pavements.
I feel the heat from them.
They never really cool down.
Years they were not there.
The car is every where.
Everyone in a hurry.
I wait for my ride.
The mode drivers
where rather it not be.
Mass transit bus.
I happily board.
Greet the driver.
Pay my fare and sit.
As I find a seat and
fold my white cane
I am thankful for that bus.
As I debus I thank the driver
Go tapping towards home.
At home I sit at computer
reading the news,letters.
Just relax playing a paw.
Computer dutiful deal
a paw of solitaire.
I have a deck to play
the old way ,
It is easier on computer.
They ask why the changes
and the heat.
Years ago it was in the 60s and 70s.
Today not so.
IF it had remained
mostly pavement free.
And few cars running
roads it would still be cool.
In winter it don''t snow.
It DID snow years ago.
I used shovel it.
Now it is easier to get about.
I wonder HAVE we damsged our world.
Is it truly too late to save her.
I can see the need for a simple
lifestyle where greed is done away.
So I ponder it.I am only one person.
There many who can make a difference.
If money was not the issue.

PLEASE GIVE BARBARA ANN CREDIT IF YOU USE IT.