Do you think that Polar Bears will adapt and live if the ice melts?

Question

I do not particularly believe in global warming, but if the ice did melt, do you think that the polar bears would become extinct? or would they adapt and live on? whats your opinion?

Answer 1

I think you have the wrong Idea about global warming .

it will not cause the poler regions to melt totally.

the warming will cause most of it to melt away but soon a freeze will happen and the Ice caps will grow past the region that it now covers and the tropical region will also grow .

as of now the tropical zone is only half way between the equator and the tropic of cancer . once long ago the tropics went beyond the tropics of cancer then from there to the poles was Ice . it all has melted away into what we now have .  

the global warming has been going on since the last ice age . and the line that our burning of fuels is the main cause is wrong . even if we were still on horse back global warming will still happen . we do not know how much longer we have . and the dinosaurs went through the same thing and they did not use fossil fuels . so this fact tosses out the idea that we are the cause of global warming . they only use the theory of fuel as the cause to play on the average joe that dont know the facts .this is a game that the greater powers are playing and it is monopoly . we want there land so we can control the fuel and we want there bairn desert land to build refinery's on . and we are making the panama canal larger to meat the growing demands for fuel . proof that this is fact is if we are running out of crude oil why did the government push through the new laws that provide the farmers a big tax break to be able to buy these huge vehicles that they drive every were and never into a farm land other than there homes . then you have the government officials that are driving these hummers and SUV to work and living better than 3 hrs away from the office .

Answer 2

Polar bear populations are actually increasing.  There are only two groups that are threatened because their habitat is shrinking due to some glacial melting.  Their story was used because it was an easy emotional hook to get small children involved in the environmental movement. They don't understand science so you have to use cheap tricks like cute fuzzy bears.

Other populations of polar bears are stable or growing because hunting them is largely forbidden.  Where hunting is allowed, the entire problem of any declining population could be solved by simply outlawing hunting. All of the global warming efforts might save 10 polar bears over 25 years.  Stopping hunting would save them all this year.

Answer 3

They will die mother earth hates them she killed 5 in Russia already

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Six people have been killed in three days by icicles falling from buildings in a central Russian region, ITAR-TASS news agency reported Tuesday.

Plummeting chunks of ice is an annual hazard for pedestrians in Russia during the spring when the sun finally melts thick layers of ice and snow which build up on roofs over months of freezing temperatures and darkness.

Medical authorities in the region of Samara told ITAR-TASS that five people died in the city of Samara and another person died in the nearby town of Otradny between February 23 and February 25.

Answer 4

The critical question here would be how much fish to feed how many seals for how many bear.

If there are too few fish or too few seals, no matter whether there is ice to hunt on, polar bears will starve.

If there were just scads of fish feeding lots of seals that would be forced to use the land, then bears would survive.

Answer 5

The ice caps aren't going anywhere.

Answer 6

I repeat myself yet again.

Polar Bears evolved from brown bears about 200.000,

that is two-hundred-thousand, years ago.

They have survived everything that has been thrown at

them in all that time, including the inter-glacial period

when there was little or no polar ice cap, the biggest threat to them was from hunting in recent history, they have recovered

from around 5,000 in the late 1950s to an estimated

20 to 25,000 today. Polar bears die all the time, just like us

and other animals, and for many reasons, they die at birth,

they die in infancy, they die from illness and disease, they die

because they are too old or weak to catch food, there are many  reasons, but one thing is certain, they will not die from

a warming climate.

Polar bears will eat almost anything they come upon, including humans ! THEY DO NOT EAT JUST FISH AND SEALS !

They are voracious predators and are not the cuddly white

bears the story books portray, they are more than capable of looking after themselves providing humans don't hunt and kill them, we are their only enemy.

Answer 7

Unless they grow gills overnight I don't see how that's happening.

Answer 8

No they wont.............. they cannot live in water because they cannot sleep in water..Neither can their cubs...... if you want real answers though go to

Answer 9

Yes, they would adapt as they have for thousands of years.  Remember, the Earth has had natural warming and cooling cycles for millenia.

Answer 10

I think they will adapt..  I am not an expert on polar bears,  but I do remember some years back,  then Vice Pres Al Gore was harping about trees being cut down and where would the spotted owls live..    months later the owls were found making their nests and homes in the M of a local K-Mart sign...

I do think animals are pretty adaptable..

Answer 11

in my humble opinion this is a "common sense" question.

humans have destroyed the natural habitats of thousands of animals and yet most of them live on. most of the extinct animals were murdered by mankind. scratch that! there is nothing KIND about man. we are the ONLY creatures who kill & murder for fun. we are also the only creatures who murder our own species simply because we are having a bad hair day!

would polar bears survive? i say YES until we decide to kill them too.

have-a-loving-day!