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Polar Bears Extinct By 2050

Cdubneeddeal

Cdubneeddeal

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wo-thirds of the world's polar bear population could be gone by midcentury if predictions of melting sea ice hold true, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Friday.

The fate of polar bears could be even bleaker than that estimate, because sea ice in the Arctic might be vanishing faster than the available computer models predict, the geological survey said in a report aimed at determining whether the big white bear should be listed as a threatened species.

"There is a definite link between changes in the sea ice and the welfare of polar bears," said Steve Amstrup, who led the research team. Arctic sea ice is already at an all-time low this year and is expected to retreat farther this month, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center.

That means that polar bears -- some 16,000 of them -- will disappear by 2050 from parts of the Arctic where sea ice is melting most rapidly, along the north coasts of Alaska and Russia, researchers said in a telephone briefing.

Other polar bear populations could survive beyond that date but many of those could be gone by 2100, Amstrup said. By century's end, the only polar bears left might live in the Canadian Arctic islands and along the west coast of Greenland.

"Projected changes in future sea ice conditions, if realized, will result in loss of approximately two-thirds of the world's current polar bear population by the mid 21st century," the report's executive summary said.

"Because the observed trajectory of Arctic sea ice decline appears to be underestimated by currently available models, this assessment of future polar bear status may be conservative."

ARE POLAR BEARS 'THREATENED'?

In January, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, noting polar bears depended on sea ice as a platform to hunt seals, their main prey.

The research released on Friday was sent to the Fish and Wildlife Service. A decision on the bears' status is expected in January.

Without enough sea ice, polar bears would be forced onto land, but they are inefficient hunters once they get out of the water and ice, the researchers said. The bears' disappearance would probably take place as young cubs failed to survive to adulthood and females were unable to reproduce successfully.

The first polar bears probably first appeared about 40,000 to 50,000 years ago, and the species has not lived through a period as warm as the one predicted by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the scientists said.

In a series of reports this year, the U.N. climate panel said with 90 percent probability that global climate change was occurring and that human activities contributed to it. The emission of greenhouse gases -- including carbon dioxide from petroleum-fueled vehicles and coal-fired power plants -- is the prime human cause of this warming trend, the panel said.

Global warming was an important topic of discussions of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum this week in Australia and will be the subject of a special U.N. meeting later this month.
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All I can say is, Good! These snow eating monsters are just one more sign that Satan himself is capable of hiding even in Earth's coldest regions. I ask now for all members of the audience to go outside and start their enormous, patriotic SUV's, and then come back into the studio while the engines run. Save the humans! Kill the bears!

</Colbert>
 
By 2050 we will just clone them and people like Michael Vick will be fighting them against Sabre Tooth Tigers.
 
They will surpass the evolutionary 'bread basket' of humanity. You dont' ahve to worry m8, most of the idiots that post here (a majority of them lifers) will be dead before the polar bears. I'd rather have these mammals live than a majority of the posters on anandtech.

Rogo
 
..more spotted owl/polar bear/fairy shrimp/ the sky is falling eco-theist bawling. wait till they find out the dodo is gone.
 
Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Originally posted by: legoman666
Why do you?
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Hello Capt Obvious.
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Let's see, someone generally mentions captain obvious if the obvious was already mentioned (heh, like that, damn I am awesome). Which you did not do.

All you did was post an excerpt from an article, then give it an inaccurate title. "Polar Bears Extinct By 2050" but accoring to the text, "two-thirds of the world's polar bear population could be gone by midcentury if predictions of melting sea ice hold true." and "polar bears... will disappear by 2050 from parts of the Arctic where sea ice is melting most rapidly" which does not say extinct. And again with, "Other polar bear populations could survive beyond that date."

So again I ask, so what?
 
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Polar bears and the Global Warming scam..

In the 1950s the polar bear population up north was estimated at 5,000. Today it's 20- to 25,000, a number that has either held steady over the last 20 years or has risen slightly. In Canada, the manager of wildlife resources for the Nunavut territory of Canada has found that the population there has increased by 25 percent.

Turns out the polar bear is being used by environmental groups to force the Bush administration to cave on global warming. To admit it is here, to admit it is bad, and to ratchet back the U.S. economy to slow down our production of greenhouse gases, which would save the polar bears habitat from melting, maybe, even if there are more and more polar bears around to watch their habitat melt.

This is called the spotted owl theory of environmentalism. Find a critter that might be hurt by human activity, and using that critter as a plaintiff in a lawsuit ? I'm exaggerating only slightly ? get the human activity to stop.

I've seen logging stopped this way, fishing stopped, and now with the polar bear mega population in danger of breaking into a sweat, a whole lot of things might be stopped if environmentalists get their way.
 
Originally posted by: IGBT
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Polar bears and the Global Warming scam..

In the 1950s the polar bear population up north was estimated at 5,000. Today it's 20- to 25,000, a number that has either held steady over the last 20 years or has risen slightly. In Canada, the manager of wildlife resources for the Nunavut territory of Canada has found that the population there has increased by 25 percent.

Turns out the polar bear is being used by environmental groups to force the Bush administration to cave on global warming. To admit it is here, to admit it is bad, and to ratchet back the U.S. economy to slow down our production of greenhouse gases, which would save the polar bears habitat from melting, maybe, even if there are more and more polar bears around to watch their habitat melt.

This is called the spotted owl theory of environmentalism. Find a critter that might be hurt by human activity, and using that critter as a plaintiff in a lawsuit ? I'm exaggerating only slightly ? get the human activity to stop.

I've seen logging stopped this way, fishing stopped, and now with the polar bear mega population in danger of breaking into a sweat, a whole lot of things might be stopped if environmentalists get their way.
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To contradict what you stated, please read here. The reason their population has risen is because a multinational agreement was put in place to prohibit random unregulated polar bear hunting.
 
Yeah, and in the early 1900s, people were saying we would be covered neck deep in horse sh!t by the 1950s.
Technology changes, that's why trends never work.
 
Which brings us to the next wrinkle in this debate: Last May, The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Defenders of Wildlife and the International Fund for Animal Welfare began lobbying Congress to alter the Marine Mammal Protection Act to prevent polar bear skins from being brought back into the U.S. by Americans legally hunting in Canada. What?s that? The Russians are coming around to the benefits of capitalism and ?animal-rights? activists are trying to stymie such efforts? That?s right. The antis? legislation (HR 2327) was introduced by U.S. Representative Jay Inslee (D-Wash.). Similar legislation was introduced in the Senate by Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), who, it seems, wants to hold on to his 100% approval rating from the anti-hunting HSUS.
The bill would harm polar bear conservation efforts, because the majority of the hunters are Americans. These hunters pay about $30,000 for a polar bear tag and numerous other costs; as a result, approximately $2.5 million is generated annually by polar bear hunting. Also, hunters have to pay $1,000 to import a polar bear into the U.S. and all the revenue generated from that fee is used for polar bear conservation efforts. Since 1994, this importation fee has generated over $700,000.








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Originally posted by: IGBT
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Polar bears and the Global Warming scam..

In the 1950s the polar bear population up north was estimated at 5,000. Today it's 20- to 25,000, a number that has either held steady over the last 20 years or has risen slightly. In Canada, the manager of wildlife resources for the Nunavut territory of Canada has found that the population there has increased by 25 percent.

Turns out the polar bear is being used by environmental groups to force the Bush administration to cave on global warming. To admit it is here, to admit it is bad, and to ratchet back the U.S. economy to slow down our production of greenhouse gases, which would save the polar bears habitat from melting, maybe, even if there are more and more polar bears around to watch their habitat melt.

This is called the spotted owl theory of environmentalism. Find a critter that might be hurt by human activity, and using that critter as a plaintiff in a lawsuit ? I'm exaggerating only slightly ? get the human activity to stop.

I've seen logging stopped this way, fishing stopped, and now with the polar bear mega population in danger of breaking into a sweat, a whole lot of things might be stopped if environmentalists get their way.
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This nonsense about global warming being a scam is a huge urban legend. The people perpetuating it are the ones ignorant of science-- it's just like the bermuda triangle, UFOs, etc
 
Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Originally posted by: IGBT
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Polar bears and the Global Warming scam..

In the 1950s the polar bear population up north was estimated at 5,000. Today it's 20- to 25,000, a number that has either held steady over the last 20 years or has risen slightly. In Canada, the manager of wildlife resources for the Nunavut territory of Canada has found that the population there has increased by 25 percent.

Turns out the polar bear is being used by environmental groups to force the Bush administration to cave on global warming. To admit it is here, to admit it is bad, and to ratchet back the U.S. economy to slow down our production of greenhouse gases, which would save the polar bears habitat from melting, maybe, even if there are more and more polar bears around to watch their habitat melt.

This is called the spotted owl theory of environmentalism. Find a critter that might be hurt by human activity, and using that critter as a plaintiff in a lawsuit ? I'm exaggerating only slightly ? get the human activity to stop.

I've seen logging stopped this way, fishing stopped, and now with the polar bear mega population in danger of breaking into a sweat, a whole lot of things might be stopped if environmentalists get their way.
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To contradict what you stated, please read here. The reason their population has risen is because a multinational agreement was put in place to prohibit random unregulated polar bear hunting.
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OWNED
 
Originally posted by: Throckmorton
Originally posted by: IGBT
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Polar bears and the Global Warming scam..

In the 1950s the polar bear population up north was estimated at 5,000. Today it's 20- to 25,000, a number that has either held steady over the last 20 years or has risen slightly. In Canada, the manager of wildlife resources for the Nunavut territory of Canada has found that the population there has increased by 25 percent.

Turns out the polar bear is being used by environmental groups to force the Bush administration to cave on global warming. To admit it is here, to admit it is bad, and to ratchet back the U.S. economy to slow down our production of greenhouse gases, which would save the polar bears habitat from melting, maybe, even if there are more and more polar bears around to watch their habitat melt.

This is called the spotted owl theory of environmentalism. Find a critter that might be hurt by human activity, and using that critter as a plaintiff in a lawsuit ? I'm exaggerating only slightly ? get the human activity to stop.

I've seen logging stopped this way, fishing stopped, and now with the polar bear mega population in danger of breaking into a sweat, a whole lot of things might be stopped if environmentalists get their way.
Click to expand...

This nonsense about global warming being a scam is a huge urban legend. The people perpetuating it are the ones ignorant of science-- it's just like the bermuda triangle, UFOs, etc
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..so called global warming is the height of eco-theism supported by pick and choose voodoo science. in a grand effort to get emission credit rackets mainstream.

 
Originally posted by: IGBT
Originally posted by: Throckmorton
Originally posted by: IGBT
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Polar bears and the Global Warming scam..

In the 1950s the polar bear population up north was estimated at 5,000. Today it's 20- to 25,000, a number that has either held steady over the last 20 years or has risen slightly. In Canada, the manager of wildlife resources for the Nunavut territory of Canada has found that the population there has increased by 25 percent.

Turns out the polar bear is being used by environmental groups to force the Bush administration to cave on global warming. To admit it is here, to admit it is bad, and to ratchet back the U.S. economy to slow down our production of greenhouse gases, which would save the polar bears habitat from melting, maybe, even if there are more and more polar bears around to watch their habitat melt.

This is called the spotted owl theory of environmentalism. Find a critter that might be hurt by human activity, and using that critter as a plaintiff in a lawsuit ? I'm exaggerating only slightly ? get the human activity to stop.

I've seen logging stopped this way, fishing stopped, and now with the polar bear mega population in danger of breaking into a sweat, a whole lot of things might be stopped if environmentalists get their way.
Click to expand...

This nonsense about global warming being a scam is a huge urban legend. The people perpetuating it are the ones ignorant of science-- it's just like the bermuda triangle, UFOs, etc
Click to expand...

..so called global warming is the height of eco-theism supported by pick and choose voodoo science. in a grand effort to get emission credit rackets mainstream.
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Do you want go ahead and post a scan of your diploma that shows you have a degree in climatology, geology, geography, or oceanography? Or did you get a "BS" in soundbiteology?
 
Jesus Christ, not the "GW word". You're just inviting IGBT to say the word "eco-theist" about 20 times. Seriously, he says that word more than "the".
 
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