Sadly, the polar bears are NOT adapting so well. The polar caps are disappearing faster than predicted, oceans are warming at a rate faster than previously predicted and a catastrophic process is unfolding and we had better damn well take some action before we pass a tipping point.
There is close to 100% agreement by all scientists not funded by Big Carbon (coal and oil) that climate change is occurring and humans are the primary cause of the current change.
There is a war on science and a war against education by those who depend on an ignorant, uneducated voting populace to keep them in office.
We see it in the attacks on not only climate science, but the war against evolution, the war against immunizations.
We see it in the amazing resurgence of people who are seriously arguing that the earth is flat and not spherical and that the earth, not the sun, is the center of the solar system.
Climate deniers are just the latest incarnation of Flat Earth superstitious ignorance.
Wiley Bears are very adaptable,probably more so than us humans. Polar Bears, on the other hand, will likely survive only in hybrid form. Mating with other bears, such as the Grizzly Bear, hybrids between the two have been confirmed already, as they and perhaps other bears move north for cooler weather and the Polar Bears find fewer places that suit them.
Even deniers who say it’s just a natural cycle should consider two things: 1). It ain’t just critters that get wiped out in large climate shifts,even cyclical ones, and 2). Only a moron wants to keep doing things that make a bad situation worse. They should consider but late night am talk radio tells ‘em to not worry their pointed little heads. But we don’t need to worry. It’ll be the problem of their kids and grandkids.
Lots of people still think in terms of oh well, it’s done this before and come back to normal. This is just temporary.
Well, they have part of it right. Current conditions are temporary because they will continue to worsen to the ultimate point of no return. Our children and grandchildren will inherit problems that are not even visualized as this time.
There is no way to prepare for the chaos that will result as ocean frontage slowly moves inland. Or when massive amounts of salt water inundate the fresh water bays and inlets and kill off native species.
And yet NASA keeps reporting an expanding ice cap. The 100% agreement is not all non-carbon scientists but all grant-influenced scientists. There is a difference. Try including solar activity into your model, the sun has a greater impact on temperature than any other factor.
My local zoo has a good polar bear habitat. There is a sign that says “When the arctic ice is gone, the polar bears will also be gone”, or words to that effect.
A lack of education or information (accurate) is ignorance. A lack of ability to see accurate information and act on it, or totally reject facts (“deniers” regardless “politics”) is stupidity.
Over 70 years of research and facts show that humans have drastically altered natural cycles, even if you consider rare events like massive volcanic activity, or asteroid strikes. WE are a species causing the most drastic changes, and our actions CAN be slowed, and impacts reversed as was the case of resticting coal use in northern Europe after killer smog in London, and over-grazing and logging/vegetation change, in the eastern Mediterranean.
We will continue to need petroleum and fossil fuels in the near future, it’s the reduction of that use that can be accomplished with technology, and will…
Ignorant or stupid, not a hard choice to make. The real currency of action is: follow the money, and you find the real problem, and evil.
Maybe all of the people that drive over sized SUV’s and have monster trucks that don’t really a need for them are a big part of the problem. How many of you hypocrites that pretend you’re so concerned about the environment have an SUV or truck and 90% of the time you are the only occupant? I’m sure not all the people driving them are conservatives. Also how many of you actually recycle? I drive a compact and drop off my recyclables every Saturday morning!
Fascinating animals, polar bears. Huge apex predators (dangerous), yet with a beauty and “character” we enjoy at a distance… Witness the affection here for the generic W. bears… If they were as sociable as dogs, you might well be buying 100 lb sacks of bear food instead of 20 for a dog. A polar bear cub is about the cutest creature extant, so somebodyshort may well be right. As was Joni Mitchell…
200 years ago there were less than one billion humans living on earth. Today, according to UN calculations there are over 7 billion of us. To believe that we don’t impact the environment is ludicrous, but other than doing away with 6 billion of us I’m not sure we can fix this.
If you do not allow dissent in science, you do not have science, you have religion. You need deniers in science. If you are correct, then you can withstand the scrutiny. All science is subject to be disproved, that is the core tenet of the scientific method.
y’all are arguing,“it’s your fault…” “no, it’s YOUR fault”. Seriously, things are changing and we can disagree how much of it is our fault and how much in natural and it does nothing but get everyone upset. I’d be happy to get started with small grass roots efforts of people not tossing cigarette butts out on the ground (not air pollution but pollution in general). We can’t even get people to stop throwing their empty beer cans into the bushes, or taking a bus over a car because the bus is not convenient.
DD Wiz almost 6 years ago
Sadly, the polar bears are NOT adapting so well. The polar caps are disappearing faster than predicted, oceans are warming at a rate faster than previously predicted and a catastrophic process is unfolding and we had better damn well take some action before we pass a tipping point.
There is close to 100% agreement by all scientists not funded by Big Carbon (coal and oil) that climate change is occurring and humans are the primary cause of the current change.
There is a war on science and a war against education by those who depend on an ignorant, uneducated voting populace to keep them in office.
We see it in the attacks on not only climate science, but the war against evolution, the war against immunizations.
We see it in the amazing resurgence of people who are seriously arguing that the earth is flat and not spherical and that the earth, not the sun, is the center of the solar system.
Climate deniers are just the latest incarnation of Flat Earth superstitious ignorance.
Dtroutma almost 6 years ago
The bears have the researchers’ only way home. Play before picnic?
Watcher almost 6 years ago
Smarter than the average bear as Yogi would say.
somebodyshort almost 6 years ago
soon to be known as the “white zoo bear”
GiantShetlandPony almost 6 years ago
Wiley Bears are very adaptable,probably more so than us humans. Polar Bears, on the other hand, will likely survive only in hybrid form. Mating with other bears, such as the Grizzly Bear, hybrids between the two have been confirmed already, as they and perhaps other bears move north for cooler weather and the Polar Bears find fewer places that suit them.
Aussie Down Under almost 6 years ago
I can barely bare that these Wiley bears are barely having so much fun, while barely holding on.
keenanthelibrarian almost 6 years ago
Let’s all hope so.
Display almost 6 years ago
Even deniers who say it’s just a natural cycle should consider two things: 1). It ain’t just critters that get wiped out in large climate shifts,even cyclical ones, and 2). Only a moron wants to keep doing things that make a bad situation worse. They should consider but late night am talk radio tells ‘em to not worry their pointed little heads. But we don’t need to worry. It’ll be the problem of their kids and grandkids.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Oddly enough, this makes me sad.
Masterskrain almost 6 years ago
If they are heading to extinction, at least they are doing it with a smile…
ChristineMurphy almost 6 years ago
Sigh…if only it were true.
Andrew Sleeth almost 6 years ago
Now all that’s left is to migrate on down to Lake Michigan for the endless supply of free beach snacks.
sandpiper almost 6 years ago
Lots of people still think in terms of oh well, it’s done this before and come back to normal. This is just temporary.
Well, they have part of it right. Current conditions are temporary because they will continue to worsen to the ultimate point of no return. Our children and grandchildren will inherit problems that are not even visualized as this time.
There is no way to prepare for the chaos that will result as ocean frontage slowly moves inland. Or when massive amounts of salt water inundate the fresh water bays and inlets and kill off native species.
asmbeers almost 6 years ago
And yet NASA keeps reporting an expanding ice cap. The 100% agreement is not all non-carbon scientists but all grant-influenced scientists. There is a difference. Try including solar activity into your model, the sun has a greater impact on temperature than any other factor.
rmercer Premium Member almost 6 years ago
My local zoo has a good polar bear habitat. There is a sign that says “When the arctic ice is gone, the polar bears will also be gone”, or words to that effect.
loveabulldesign almost 6 years ago
The reality is so sad I can’t even suspend disbelief to enjoy this—not after seeing the starving polar bears. Can’t wash that image away.
Al Nala almost 6 years ago
The climate’s been changing since the atmosphere was born(came into being).
animemom50 almost 6 years ago
https://www.care2.com/causes/what-is-the-new-green-deal.html
WCraft Premium Member almost 6 years ago
We penguins at the South Pole are worried, too…
dennisodoyle almost 6 years ago
Give it a rest, Wiz…most of the scientists are funded by the government.
MadMonk almost 6 years ago
HAHA! Look how much fun they’re having.
Dtroutma almost 6 years ago
A lack of education or information (accurate) is ignorance. A lack of ability to see accurate information and act on it, or totally reject facts (“deniers” regardless “politics”) is stupidity.
Over 70 years of research and facts show that humans have drastically altered natural cycles, even if you consider rare events like massive volcanic activity, or asteroid strikes. WE are a species causing the most drastic changes, and our actions CAN be slowed, and impacts reversed as was the case of resticting coal use in northern Europe after killer smog in London, and over-grazing and logging/vegetation change, in the eastern Mediterranean.
We will continue to need petroleum and fossil fuels in the near future, it’s the reduction of that use that can be accomplished with technology, and will…
Ignorant or stupid, not a hard choice to make. The real currency of action is: follow the money, and you find the real problem, and evil.
GAKatmandu almost 6 years ago
Maybe all of the people that drive over sized SUV’s and have monster trucks that don’t really a need for them are a big part of the problem. How many of you hypocrites that pretend you’re so concerned about the environment have an SUV or truck and 90% of the time you are the only occupant? I’m sure not all the people driving them are conservatives. Also how many of you actually recycle? I drive a compact and drop off my recyclables every Saturday morning!
DCBakerEsq almost 6 years ago
Laugh at the Apocalypse.
Oldgrowth almost 6 years ago
Fascinating animals, polar bears. Huge apex predators (dangerous), yet with a beauty and “character” we enjoy at a distance… Witness the affection here for the generic W. bears… If they were as sociable as dogs, you might well be buying 100 lb sacks of bear food instead of 20 for a dog. A polar bear cub is about the cutest creature extant, so somebodyshort may well be right. As was Joni Mitchell…
Màiri almost 6 years ago
Would that they were.
vawr almost 6 years ago
Al Gore is your god.
rlaker22j almost 6 years ago
My my mr. Miller you did strike a chord today good for you let’s have a drink before the world ends
Ginny Premium Member almost 6 years ago
NOT funny.
Sailor46 USN 65-95 almost 6 years ago
200 years ago there were less than one billion humans living on earth. Today, according to UN calculations there are over 7 billion of us. To believe that we don’t impact the environment is ludicrous, but other than doing away with 6 billion of us I’m not sure we can fix this.
rs0204 Premium Member almost 6 years ago
This is what Republicans think, when they hear Climate Change.
6turtle9 almost 6 years ago
Huh, that’s funny. I thought they would have been bear-footing instead.
Old Asdirt almost 6 years ago
Polishbearskis!
bakana almost 6 years ago
Better than the guys who Used to own that boat and those Skis adapted to Wiley Bears.
lindz.coop Premium Member almost 6 years ago
If only…
phil5791 almost 6 years ago
If you do not allow dissent in science, you do not have science, you have religion. You need deniers in science. If you are correct, then you can withstand the scrutiny. All science is subject to be disproved, that is the core tenet of the scientific method.
car2ner almost 6 years ago
y’all are arguing,“it’s your fault…” “no, it’s YOUR fault”. Seriously, things are changing and we can disagree how much of it is our fault and how much in natural and it does nothing but get everyone upset. I’d be happy to get started with small grass roots efforts of people not tossing cigarette butts out on the ground (not air pollution but pollution in general). We can’t even get people to stop throwing their empty beer cans into the bushes, or taking a bus over a car because the bus is not convenient.