I love the Polar Bears,will they survive Global Warming ?

Question

I love the Polar Bears,will they survive Global Warming ?

Answer 1

YES, ABSOLUTELY. Don't worry about polar bears. It was cartoon animated hype in Al’s bogus movie, designed to draw an emotional response. The truth is that only 2 of 13 populations is declining, while the other 11 abound.

Answer 2

Give me a break...

Answer 3

i dont think polar bears will survive. all animals have different habitats without which they cannot live. accordingly, polar bears wont survive in a hot climate. so try to stop global warming to save your favourite animal and even the human race.

Answer 4

Global warming is political BS!  The temperature have not risen, they have dropped BUT the thermal zones are shifting so places are getting colder while other places are getting warmer.

Answer 5

No, So try a Polar Bear Steak before they are all gone!

Answer 6

More than likely, providing man gives them enough space!

I love all animals myself!

I do have to admit to a phobia of snakes, but I would never harm one.

Even if global temperatures increased to the point of polar ice cap melting completely, the polar bears will adapt and move inland. It has happened before, and will happen again.

It is a complete mis-conception that polar bears require ice in order to survive, or that man could do anything to alter events.

The polar bears(like most animals), are also very good swimmers.

We are shown video footage of (supposedly), polar bears clinging on for their life, hanging on to a lump of ice! They may have only been taking a momentary rest.

What is not shown is that they may have been no further than a few hundred yards from the next ice sheet, and that they were never in any real danger at all!

It is this type of media hype that organizations like 'Green peace'  and others want you to see in order to support their cause!

I supported Greenpeace back in the 1980's when I thought they had a valid cause.

To stop the mindless slaughter of whales!

Today they only take pictures!

There are still animals which need our protection from mindless exploitation, such as elephants for their tusks, whales for so-called(scientific research), etc..., but polar bears are not one of them!

Answer 7

Polar bears split from Brown bears roughly 200,000 years ago based on DNA studies.  This means that they survived other warming periods as well as periods of glaciation so in all likelihood, they will survive the latest one as well.  There is a lot of disinformation on climate.  Let's get one thing straight, human impact on climate  to date has been minimal.  In other words, instead of being 42 below zero in the arctic, maybe it is 40 below.  I doubt that will hurt the Polar Bear.  Those that pretend there has already been significant warming are pushing an agenda that has little to do with the truth or science.

Answer 8

Polar bears, like all bears, are highly adaptable.  If the current 10,000 year warming trend continues, we can expect to see continued reduction in the artic ice fields, and this will force at least some polar bear populatons to change their feeding habits.  But this is one thing that bears are very good at doing, just ask anybody that lives in bear country.  So what we are likely to see are changes in polar bear habits, and population movements to new sources of food.  I'm sure some individual bears will not make the switch and will die, but this is basically how evolution works, the most adaptable adapt and continue to spread their genes, the least adaptable die, removing their inferior genetic code from the gene pool.

Answer 9

If we all adopt a polar bear, they will survive!  Go to your local Humane Society, or even an upscale Pet Store (the kind where the drug dealers get their lions from), and see if any homeless polar bears are available.  All you have to do is fill the basement of your home, or the basement of someone who isnt home, with ice, install the polar bear, and feed it fish, excess relatives, and the occational watercress salad.  If you do this for several thousand years while it is determined whether or not Global Whatever is happening for real, you will have a whole slew of polar bears calling you "uncle" (or "aunt"

) and will receive a certificate of thanks printed on recycled penguins from the Polar Office Of Pontificating (P.O.O.P.), which is in charge of having the Polar Bears take over the world,,,,,err, I mean, Resettling the Polar Bears in homes where they can prosper and eat their hosts.  Hope you are delicious!

Answer 10

Scientists claim the polar bear population is declining, but the facts are, according to the Intuit Eskimos who hunt polar bear and depend on them for food and clothing say the population is growing, they have had several years of record harvest of large specimens.....I sooner trust the Intuit who have been linked to the polar bears for thousands of years, than the conclusions of scientist after several months.

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.

The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.

This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.

Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is

becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).

As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).

When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.

As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':

Humans did not cause it.

Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 11

No here's why:

Global warming -- a gradual increase in planet-wide temperatures -- is now well documented and accepted by scientists as fact. A panel convened by the U.S National Research Council, the nation's premier science policy body, in June 2006 voiced a "high level of confidence" that Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, and possibly even the last 2,000 years. Studies indicate that the average global surface temperature has increased by approximately 0.5-1.0°F (0.3-0.6°C) over the last century. This is the largest increase in surface temperature in the last 1,000 years and scientists are predicting an even greater increase over this century. This warming is largely attributed to the increase of greenhouse gases (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) in the Earth's upper atmosphere caused by human burning of fossil fuels, industrial, farming, and deforestation activities.

Average global temperatures may increase by 1.4-5.8ºC (that's 2.5 - 10.4º F) by the end of the 21st century. Although the numbers sound small, they can trigger significant changes in climate. (The difference between global temperatures during an Ice Age and an ice-free period is only about 5ºC.) Besides resulting in more hot days, many scientists believe an increase in temperatures may lead to changes in precipitation and weather patterns. Warmer ocean water may result in more intense and frequent tropical storms and hurricanes. Sea levels are also expected to increase by 0.09 - 0.88 m. in the next century, mainly from melting glaciers and expanding seawater . Global warming may also affect wildlife and species that cannot survive in warmer environments may become extinct. Finally, human health is also at stake, as global warming may result in the spreading of certain diseases such as malaria, the flooding of major cities, a greater risk of heat stroke for individuals, and poor air quality.

Climate change is very likely having an impact now on our planet and its life, according to the latest installment of a report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). And the future problems caused by rising seas, growing deserts, and more frequent droughts all look set to affect the developing world more than rich countries, they add. The report is the second chapter of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment -- the most comprehensive summary yet of research into the causes and effects of climate change. To read more, visit Effects of climate change tallied up.

Factors

Greenhouse Gases

The increase in greenhouse gases caused by human activity is often cited as one of the major causes of global warming. These greenhouse gases reabsorb heat reflected from the Earth's surface, thus trapping the heat in our atmosphere. This natural process is essential for life on Earth because it plays an important role in regulating the Earth's temperature. However, over the last several hundred years, humans have been artificially increasing the concentration of these gases, mainly carbon dioxide and methane in the Earth's atmosphere. These gases build up and prevent additional thermal radiation from leaving the Earth, thereby trapping excess heat.

Solar Variability & Global Warming

Some uncertainty remains about the role of natural variations in causing climate change. Solar variability certainly plays a minor role, but it looks like only a quarter of the recent variations can be attributed to the Sun. At most. During the initial discovery period of global warming, the magnitude of the influence of increased activity on the Sun was not well determined.

Solar irradiance changes have been measured reliably by satellites for only 30 years. These precise observations show changes of a few tenths of a percent that depend on the level of activity in the 11-year solar cycle. Changes over longer periods must be inferred from other sources. Estimates of earlier variations are important for calibrating the climate models. While a component of recent global warming may have been caused by the increased solar activity of the last solar cycle, that component was very small compared to the effects of additional greenhouse gases. According to a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) press release, "...the solar increases do not have the ability to cause large global temperature increases...greenhouse gases are indeed playing the dominant role..." The Sun is once again less bright as we approach solar minimum, yet global warming continues.

GLOBAL WARMING HAS TO STOP BEFORE WE ALL DIE.

HUMANS MADE THIS MESS AND HUMANS ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN CLEAN IT UP!

Answer 12

No

Answer 13

in my opinion no land species will survive global warming in the end. Global warming is already here. We are all doomed in the end.

Answer 14

yes more then likely <big><big>syke

Answer 15

First they'll go further and further south where they MIGHT adapt to the temperature but it then all depends on human tolerance. Will people find a way to keep polar bears away from their houses or wil they start shooting?

It all depends.

But listen to this what I just heard: bio-fuel is made from soja which they take from poor countries. This is really true, it's all over the news in the scientist magazines etc.

Apparently they are nearly robbing the soja framers in poor countries by buying soja from them for a really cheap price. The bio-fuel industrialists realised a lot of people will want to buy it. So when you nowfill up two times with bio-fuel, it takes so much soja, your robbing someone from a year of food!

Isn't that ridiculous?

I'm glad there are still people like you who care.

Thanks.

Answer 16

Well, considering their numbers have been increasing in the midst of what everyone seems to think is catastrophic global warming, I'd say they'll be fine.  And for that matter, the earth is doing ok too.

Answer 17

You dont have to worry, because all of the ice caps wont have melted by the time you die.  However, eventually, maybe so.

Answer 18

To be blunt... NO!!!

This is why we have to do stuff to save the planet!

Answer 19

Don't we all, but don't think they'll survive, they're coming instinct like dinosaurs anymore.

Answer 20

blimey joy li, i thought that was a wind up! so they are breeding with grizzlies, good, some of their genes will survive at least.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natur...

Answer 21

haven't you heard? global warming has been cancelled due to lack of interest. actually, the polar bears are in luck, due to the period of global cooling we're going through. this year, some of the coldest temp's on record are being broken.

Answer 22

sort of, the melting ice is forcing them either farther north or into grizzly country, but they are starting to interbreed making a new breed of bear "the grolar bear"  so i dont think the pure polar bear will but it will live on through the grolar

Answer 23

global warming does not exist!! its the earth naturally heating itself up! it cools and heats itself off!

polar bears will be just fine!

Answer 24

yes, in some form or another.  they are already breeding with grizzlies, and starting to adapt to hunting on the mainland.

Answer 25

yes, the ice caps have been much smaller before due to previous much hotter piroids, pria to the medievil warm period.

polar bear population has increased more than 5 fold, since 2002 and now has around 2,750 in existence

Answer 26

If you love them that much, they will survive. If it means that much to you put your heart into it. Good luck, I hope I hear off you.