Is there more or less poler bears now than what we had a hundred years ago?

Question

Is there more or less poler bears now than what we had a hundred years ago?

Answer 1

The second to last one will have to be a quadrapeligic with a really bad cough before this administration will do anything about it.

At that point they might send it a get well card.  

On recycled paper, to show how ecologically sensitive they are.

Then they'll poke around behind its den to see if that might be a good place to drill an oil well.

Answer 2

Less. they are dying because of global warming. This is because global warmign is making all teh ice melt. So polar bears have to swim farther before reaching a bock of i9ce to perch on. Eventually thy drown if tehy can't find ice.

Answer 3

We honestly don't know. polar bears are very hard to track so even polar bear experts can't really count them. Polar bears roam thousands of miles and eat anything they want.

Answer 4

population is rising with global warming... stunning isnt it?

Answer 5

Lesser and lesser...the ice is melting coz of global warming...means...longer swims for them...fewer places to stay...more polar bears die...T_T...

Answer 6

There is less.

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Answer 7

Not sure about a hundred years ago, but during the 1950-60's the population was around 5,000. Now the population is between 20,000 to 35,000.

That entire myth was a lie to begin with, but the AGW loones never speak up about obvious and proven lies by their side. Unfortunately, many people get all their info on AGW via the main stream media.

Answer 8

There is less because of global warming and the ice is melting so the polar bears have less room to hunt and find land so they drown or rune out of food.

Answer 9

There are no reliable records from 100 years ago.  Counting polar bears, even today, is not easy.

So no one knows.

I think that was your question, even if a lot of answers were about what might happen in the future.

For what it is worth, polar bears are formidable predators and unarmed humans don't stand a chance in a close encounter with a polar bear.

Answer 10

Does that include the animated ones? -from Al Gore's Disney movie..

Answer 11

A new NCPA study by Dr. David Legates, director of the University of Delaware's Center for Climatic Research and state climatologist, examines the claim that global warming threatens to cause polar bear extinction and finds little basis for fear. By and large, the study finds that polar bear populations are in good shape.

Answer 12

less

Answer 13

less and there will be fewer still with the polar ice packs melting

Answer 14

in fact, there might well be more today, because 100 years ago, we were trying very hard to wipe out all of their food.

the situation today is quite different in that today, with melting ice sheets, their access to food is diminishing.

same effect, two different causes.  isn't that interesting.

Answer 15

They are set to be extinct.  Consider that they already are extinct and hunt down the polluting criminals that killed them.  In this way, you may redeem yourself.

Answer 16

"Our information is that seven of 13 populations of polar bears in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (more than half the world's estimated total) are either stable or increasing..... Of the three that appear to be declining, only one has been shown to be affected by climate change. No one can say with certainty that climate change has not affected these other populations, but it is also true that we have no information to suggest that it has." -- Dr. Mitchell Taylor, manager, wildlife research section, Department of Environment, Igloolik, Nunavut.

Answer 17

Does it matter?   In 1825 there were BILLIONS of Passenger pigeons in this country.   There was over a billion in just one flock.  They have been extinct since 1914.  How many times have you ever lamented that there are no more Passenger pigeons (if you even knew what they were)?   My guess is zero times.  We will do just fine if, unfortunately, Polar bears are less common now.

Answer 18

I doubt anybody was counting polar bears 100 years ago, so we probably won't ever know the answer.  Over the last couple decades their numbers appear to be increasing, but that is probably due to restrictions on hunting.

It remains to be seen what the effect of climate change will be on them.  Bears are a lot hardier and more adaptable then a lot of people credit them.  It's unlikely they will go extinct because at a minimum people find them interesting enough to go to great lengths to preserve the species.  

Irrespective of how cute they look in pictures and animated films, up close they are fearsome predators that will happily do their part to make us an endangered species.